menudo
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of menudo
First recorded in 1900–05; from Mexican Spanish; compare Spanish menudos “giblets, innards,” noun use of menudo “small, insignificant,” from Latin minūtus; see minute 2, menu
Example Sentences
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Servers emerge from the kitchen carrying mismatched plates of chilaquiles and, on weekends, bowls of hominy-packed, spicy menudo soup that’s spent at least six hours on the stove.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
Juanita’s Foods is the nation’s top seller of canned menudo — a traditional Mexican soup made from cow tripe — boasting more than 95% market share.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2025
If I think it’s going to take me a long time to get a hold of some menudo, I’ll have some Mexican soup that I’ve made the night before — usually albondigas or posole.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2024
A few literary decades later, you’ll find the same landscape filling in with food stands selling menudo in Salvador Plascencia’s experimental 2005 novel, “The People of Paper.”
From New York Times ● May 17, 2023
The old Mexican man brought him a bowl of menudo.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
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