beef burrito
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- noun
- /biːf bəˈriːtoʊ/
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burrito de carne
- However, the Morrison's Carmenere was pretty good with a fairly spicy beef burrito (bought in Asda, funnily enough, who probably also do a Carmenere; I'll have to check...)
Examples
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I ordered a delicious beef burrito filled with spicy meat and topped with fresh salsa.
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Big beef burrito, with extra beans on that bad boy.
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With the exception of a couple of international political junkies and a few desperate-looking Indonesian news crews, one of which filmed me in close-up ordering a beef burrito, the crowd this time was exclusively American.
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The restaurant serves a hearty beef burrito wrapped in a warm tortilla with rice and cheese.
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On chilly nights, nothing beats the comfort of a hot beef burrito stuffed with seasoned beef and beans.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: a 'burrito' is a filled tortilla and 'beef' specifies the filling, so a learner who knows both words can infer a tortilla filled with beef. This type of food-noun + dish construction is cross-linguistically common and follows a predictable pattern, making it easily understandable at B1 level.
Etymology
Beef burrito joins beef and burrito; burrito comes from Spanish for 'little donkey' and one popular story says vendors wrapped food in a tortilla and carried the rolls on a donkey. That's why a beef burrito means a tortilla rolled around seasoned beef, so the name helps you imagine the wrapped food like a small load on a donkey.