charqui

English

Etymology

From the same Quechua root as jerky, via Spanish.

Noun

charqui (countable and uncountable, plural charquis)

  1. (South and Central America, Western US) jerky
    • 1839, Charles Darwin, Journal of Researches, John Murray (1913), page 273:
      When it was dark, we made a fire beneath a little arbour of bamboos, fried our charqui (or dried slips of beef), took our maté, and were quite comfortable.

References

  • charqui in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Spanish

Etymology

From Quechua.

Noun

charqui m (uncountable)

  1. jerky (air-dried meat)
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