bolillo

English

Etymology

From Mexican Spanish bolillo (“bread roll”).

Noun

bolillo (plural bolillos)

1. A type of white bread roll from Latin America.
   • 2009 August 26, John T. Edge, “In Praise of the All-American Mexican Hot Dog”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     In Tucson more than 100 vendors, known as hotdogueros, peddle Sonoran-style hot dogs — candy cane-wrapped in bacon, griddled until dog and bacon fuse, garnished with a kitchen sink of taco truck condiments and stuffed into split-top rolls that owe a debt to both Mexican bolillo loaves and grocery store hot dog buns.

Spanish

Etymology

From bolo +‎ -illo.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /boˈliʝo/ [boˈli.ʝo]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /boˈliʝo/ [boˈli.ʝo]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /boˈliʎo/ [boˈli.ʎo]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /boˈliʃo/ [boˈli.ʃo]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /boˈliʒo/ [boˈli.ʒo]

 

• Rhymes: -iʝo

• Rhymes: -iʝo
• Rhymes: -iʎo
• Rhymes: -iʃo
• Rhymes: -iʒo

• Syllabification: bo‧li‧llo

Noun

bolillo m (plural bolillos)

1. (regional) bread roll
2. (El Salvador, Mexico) type of bread
3. (regional, derogatory) Caucasian person
4. bobbin
5. (Cuba, El Salvador) musical drumstick
6. (Ecuador) rolling pin

Derived terms

• bolillero
• encaje de bolillos

 

Further reading

• “bolillo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10