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churro
[ choor-oh; Spanish choor-raw ]
/ ˈtʃʊər oʊ; Spanish ˈtʃur rɔ /
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noun, plural chur·ros [choor-ohz; Spanish choor-raws]. /ˈtʃʊər oʊz; Spanish ˈtʃur rɔs/. Mexican Cooking.
a long, slender, deep-fried pastry resembling a cruller.
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Origin of churro
First recorded in 1925–30; from Spanish, perhaps after dialect churro (a kind of coarse-wooled sheep), the name for the inhabitants of the mountainous parts of Valencia, the approximate area where the pastry originated
Words nearby churro
churn out, churn rate, churr, churrasco, churrigueresque, churro, chuse, chute, Chu Teh, chute the chute, chutist
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How to use churro in a sentence
This year there were no churros, none of the freedom to explore on their own, and no señoras to iron their underwear.
I took my churro from the pretty granny and paid her, taking a couple of quick bites of the dough before I turned around.
Little Brother|Cory DoctorowLester stood among them, eating a churro in a piece of wax-paper.
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