buñuelo

American  

[boon-yoo-ey-loh, boo-nywe-law] / ˌbun yuˈeɪ loʊ, buˈnywɛ lɔ /

noun

plural

buñuelos

1. Mexican Cooking. a thin, round, fried pastry, often dusted with cinnamon sugar.

---

Etymology

Origin of buñuelo

First recorded in 1810–20; from Mexican Spanish, Spanish: “doughnut, fritter”; compare Catalan bunyol “bun,” bony “lump, bulge”; akin to the Romance base of bunion, beignet, bun ¹