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chorizo

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See also: Chorizo

English

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Corn bread with cheese and chorizo

Alternative forms

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  • choritso, chorizzo (spellings affected by the 'hyper-foreign' pronunciations with /ts/)

Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish chorizo.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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chorizo (countable and uncountable, plural chorizos)

  1. A spicy Spanish sausage flavoured with paprika, often crumbled for use in filling tacos, quesadillas, etc.
    Synonym: Spanish sausage
    • 2008 January–February, Mark Bittman, “The only 7 meals you need for 2008”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 1, →ISSN, page 138:
      Substitute three chopped scallions and a minced jalapeño for the onion, and 6 ounces crumbled chorizo for the tomatoes. Sub ½ cup queso fresco for the Parmesan in step 2. Serve with salsa.
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Translations

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Further reading

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References

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  • chorizo” defined by Infoplease.com: pronounced: chu-rē'zō; Sp. chô-rē'sô, -thô, plural: (-zōz; Sp. -sôs, -thôs
  • Chorizo” listed in the BBC Food Glossary (accessed on 17.09.2009): pronounced: ‘chor-eetho’
  1. 1.0 1.1 chorizo”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 chorizo”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

French

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish chorizo.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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chorizo m (plural chorizos)

  1. chorizo

Spanish

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Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:
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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): (Spain) /t͡ʃoˈɾiθo/ [t͡ʃoˈɾi.θo]
  • IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /t͡ʃoˈɾiso/ [t͡ʃoˈɾi.so]
  • Audio (Venezuela):(file)
  • Rhymes: -iθo
  • Rhymes: -iso
  • Syllabification: cho‧ri‧zo

Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Portuguese chouriço or Galician chourizo,[1] either way from Old Galician-Portuguese souriço, of uncertain origin. First attested in Spanish in 1604.[2]

Noun

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chorizo m (plural chorizos)

  1. a type of sausage
  2. (Uruguay) a foolish person
    Synonym: longaniza
  3. (vulgar, slang) a penis
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pene
  4. (slang, Costa Rica) corruption
    Synonym: corrupción
Derived terms
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Descendants
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  • Basque: txorizo
  • Catalan: xoriço
  • English: chorizo
  • French: chorizo
  • Swedish: chorizo

Etymology 2

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From chori, from Caló chorar (to steal).

Noun

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chorizo m (plural chorizos)

  1. (Spain) a crook
  2. (Spain, Mexico, Chile, colloquial) petty thief, pickpocket
    Synonyms: choro, ratero, ladronzuelo, carterista

Adjective

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chorizo (feminine choriza, masculine plural chorizos, feminine plural chorizas)

  1. (vulgar, Chile) stuck-up, haughty

Etymology 3

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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chorizo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of chorizar

References

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  1. ^ Martins Estêvez, Higino. Germanismos pouco estudados do Galego-Português.
  2. ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “chorizo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 392

Further reading

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Swedish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish chorizo.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ɕoˈritso/, /ɕoˈriːso/

Noun

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chorizo c

  1. chorizo

Declension

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