menudo

[ muh-noo-doh; Spanish me-noo-thaw ]

noun
  1. a spicy Mexican soup made with tripe, onions, tomatoes, chiles, and hominy.

Origin of menudo

1
First recorded in 1900–05; from Mexican Spanish; compare Spanish menudos “giblets, innards,” noun use of menudo “small, insignificant,” from Latin minūtus; see minute2, menu

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