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🍲 Mexican soup 🔹 Small or slight
menudo

menudo

2 8.5
A Mexican soup made from cow stomach, chili peppers, and spices
  • noun
  • /məˈnuːdoʊ/
  • US
translation icon : menudo
  • The menudo is the thing to order; this spicy tripe soup is a legendary cure for a hangover.
  • bowl of menudo
  • menudo (tripe)

Examples

  • But the tripe soup I know best is our very own menudo—extremely popular in the American Southwest, in Central America, and in Mexico.

    Blog text (18)

  • With great ceremony, he treated them to menudo and gorditas washed down with as much Coca-Cola as they could drink.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • Hey, you guys gotta try this menudo.

    Trolls Band Together (2023)

  • I was thinking Mexico because the thing that I'm feeling is most closely related to is like that menudo that we had that one time.

  • Sunday morning menudo breakfast at El Charro in Johnson City, Texas.

    Blog text (18)

  • I balanced my plate on my knees as I scarfed down a bowl of menudo.

  • "We have enchiladas, mole, menudo, and turkey with red chile."

Synonyms

sopa
vsmenudo
1 6.5

A hot dish of liquid with meat, vegetables, or noodles

is a specific Mexican soup made with beef tripe and chili

How Spicy

vindaloo
2 4.8
menudo
  • US
2 8.5
chili
  • US
84 1.5

Surface Forms

menudo singular
menudos plural

Etymology

Menudo for the Mexican soup comes from the Spanish word menudo, which traces back to the Latin minutus meaning 'small', because the dish is made of small pieces of tripe and other bits. That's why the food is called menudo.