mendrugo

Spanish

Etymology

Possibly from Vulgar Latin *mandūcum, from Latin mandūcāre. Influenced by mendigo.

Noun

mendrugo m (plural mendrugos)

1. crust (of bread, particularly the heel of a loaf of bread)

Further reading

• “mendrugo”, 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