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churro

churro

16 3.2
A long sweet fried dough stick that is covered in sugar and often eaten with chocolate
  • noun
  • /ˈtʃʊroʊ/
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  • They were sitting in a noisy bar, drinking hot chocolate and sharing a plateful of the greasy sticks of fried pastry called churros.
  • churros with chocolate
  • sugar-dusted churros
  • churro vendor

I, I had a bad churro and it like wasn't good, but it was still a churro.

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Examples

  • At the festival, we bought delicious churros topped with cinnamon.

  • The main reason I ever go to Disneyland is churro consumption.

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  • We bought you a churro.

  • The first stop we made was at the turkey leg stand and then the churro stand.

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  • It's not my favorite, but I will say the churros are amazing.

  • She was really nice and bought me a churro.

  • At one store, he bought an empanada; at another, a long twisting churro.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • Some prefer a dusting of sugar on their churros, which come in various shapes and sizes: chunky, thin, straight, or knotted.

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  • The churros are deep-fried in sizzling olive oil, and if that's making your health-conscious self guilty, think of all the antioxidant-rich chocolate you are drinking on the side.

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  • I enjoyed a crispy churro coated in sugar at the fair.

Synonyms

pastry
vschurro
90 1.0

A baked item like a croissant or tart that people often eat with coffee

describes a fried sweet item that is coated with sugar or chocolate

How Sweet

baklava
8 6.0
donut
  • US
134 1.0
churro
16 3.2
bun
164 1.0
pretzel
118 1.0

Surface Forms

churro singular
churros plural

Etymology

Churro comes from Spanish (and Portuguese) and may come from an old word meaning 'curly' or from the name of a Spanish sheep, Churra, because early churros were shaped like small horns or twisted ropes. So a churro is easy to remember: it is a long, often curled, fried dough treat usually dusted with sugar and eaten with chocolate.