menudo

[muh-noo-doh; Spanish me-noo-th aw]

noun

a spicy Mexican soup made with tripe, onions, tomatoes, chilies, and hominy.

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Origin of menudo

< Mexican Spanish; compare Spanish menudos giblets, innards, noun use of menudo small, insignificant < Latin minūtus; see minute², menu

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Examples from the Web for menudo

Contemporary Examples

Others were thrown into barrels of acid and dissolved into stew, menudo as some called it.
On the Hunt for Treviño Morales, Zetas Leader
Alfredo Corchado
August 6, 2013

Historical Examples

Pero Mara, la esposa, era muy inteligente y a menudo remediaba las tonteras que haba hecho su marido.
A First Spanish Reader
Erwin W. Roessler and Alfred Remy
A menudo es un colono nuevo, un empleado o un agente comercial.
Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader
Ernesto Nelson