Dorito

English

Etymology

Marketing coinage, from Spanish doradito (“golden (diminutive)”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

Dorito (plural Doritos)

1. A tortilla chip of the Doritos brand.
   • 1991, Ellen Emerson White, “The Boy Next Door”, in Thirteen: Thirteen Tales of Horror, page 302:

     [Timmy] offered her his bag of Doritos.

   • 2010, Stacy Alaimo, Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self, page 12:

     I looked out the kitchen window at my garden, my trenches, my dirt, and then my gaze turned downward toward my Dorito-stained hand.

   • 2013, Pamela Yaye, Games of the Heart:

     Stuffing the last Dorito chip into her mouth, she brushed the salt from her hands.

Derived terms

• Dorito body

Anagrams

• rotoid, toroid