chorizo

English

Corn bread with cheese and chorizo

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish chorizo.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: chŏrēʹzō, IPA(key): /tʃɒˈɹiː.zəʊ/ or like Spanish: IPA(key): /tʃɒˈɹiːsəʊ/, IPA(key): /tʃɒˈɹiːθəʊ/
  • (US) enPR: chərēʹzō, IPA(key): /tʃəˈɹi.zoʊ/[1][2] or like Spanish: IPA(key): /tʃɔˈɹisɔ/, /tʃəˈɹisoʊ/,[1][2] IPA(key): /tʃɔˈɹiθɔ/[2]

Noun

chorizo (countable and uncountable, plural chorizos)

  1. A spicy Spanish sausage flavoured with paprika.

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References

  • “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 2 “chorizo” in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
  2. 1 2 3 “chorizo” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish chorizo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃɔ.ʁi.zo/

Noun

chorizo m (plural chorizos)

  1. chorizo

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • (Castilian) IPA(key): /t͡ʃoˈɾiθo/
  • (Latin America) IPA(key): /t͡ʃoˈɾiso/
  • Rhymes: -iθo, -iso

Etymology 1

Possibly from Latin salsīcius (or a Vulgar Latin form *sauricium), but uncertain. Compare Portuguese chouriço.

Noun

chorizo m (plural chorizos)

  1. a type of sausage
  2. (Uruguay) a foolish person
  3. (vulgar, slang, Latin America) a penis
  4. (slang, Costa Rica) corruption
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Etymology 2

From chori, from Caló chorar, to steal

Noun

chorizo m (plural chorizos)

  1. (Spain) a crook
  2. (Spain, Mexico, Chile, colloquial) a thief

Adjective

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

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

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