chorizo

Borrowed from Spanish chorizo.

• (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]

chorizo (countable and uncountable, plural chorizos)

1. A spicy Spanish sausage flavoured with paprika.

• chouriço

• chorizo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• “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’

Borrowed from Spanish chorizo.

• IPA^(key): /ʃɔ.ʁi.zo/

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chorizo m (plural chorizos)

1. chorizo

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

Possibly from Latin salsīcius (or a Vulgar Latin form *sauricium), derivative of salsus (“salted”), but uncertain. Compare Portuguese chouriço.

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

• (sausage): longaniza
• (penis): pene, pito, reata, verga

• choripán
• choriqueso
• chorizar

• → Catalan: xoriço
• → English: chorizo
• → French: chorizo
• → Portuguese: chouriço

From chori, from Caló chorar, to steal

chorizo m (plural chorizos)

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

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

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

• “chorizo” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.