chunchullo
Spanish
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t͡ʃunˈt͡ʃuʝo/ [t͡ʃũnʲˈt͡ʃu.ʝo] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /t͡ʃunˈt͡ʃuʎo/ [t͡ʃũnʲˈt͡ʃu.ʎo] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /t͡ʃunˈt͡ʃuʃo/ [t͡ʃũnʲˈt͡ʃu.ʃo] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /t͡ʃunˈt͡ʃuʒo/ [t͡ʃũnʲˈt͡ʃu.ʒo] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Rhymes: -uʝo (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
- Rhymes: -uʎo (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -uʃo (Buenos Aires and environs)
- Rhymes: -uʒo (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Syllabification: chun‧chu‧llo
Noun
chunchullo m (plural chunchullos)
- (Colombia) the grilled or fried chitterlings of a pig, cow, or lamb, consumed in Argentina, Colombia, Uruguay and Chile
- Synonyms: chunchul, chunchurria, chinchulín, chinchurria, choncholi, choncholí, choncholí, chunchuli (Argentina), chunchulí (Peru), chunchulín (South America), gallinejas
- 2005, Roberto Posada García-Peña, Daniel Samper Pizano, El Fogon de D'Artagnan, page 125:
- Como el país, el chunchullo está en la olla.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading
- “chunchullo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
- “chunchullo”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010