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👩‍🦳 A foreign woman 🌮 A Mexican dish
gringa

gringa

1 8.8
A flour tortilla folded and grilled with cheese and spiced pork
  • noun
  • US
translation icon : gringa
  • The chef specializes in traditional dishes, including the famous gringa that everyone loves.

Examples

  • Enjoy your gringa.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • I ordered a delicious gringa filled with cheese and spicy pork at the restaurant.

  • - You enjoy my sweet pork, little gringa?

    Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby (2000)

  • At the festival, I couldn't resist trying the grilled gringa topped with fresh salsa.

Synonyms

quesadilla
vsgringa
18 3.1

A tortilla folded and grilled with melted cheese inside

is the specific version that uses flour tortilla and often includes spiced pork

How Filling

burrito
99 1.0
gringa
  • US
1 8.8
taco
160 1.0
quesadilla
18 3.1
tortilla
29 2.4

Surface Forms

gringa singular
gringas plural

Etymology

Gringa for the Mexican cheese-and-pork tortilla probably comes from Spanish gringa ('foreign woman'), from gringo ('foreigner'). One popular story says people called this wheat-flour taco 'gringa' because the flour and style looked 'American', which helps explain the food name.