English

Corn bread with cheese and chorizo

Noun

chorizo ‎(plural chorizos)

1. A spicy Spanish sausage flavoured with paprika.

Translations

External links

• chorizo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• “chorizo” defined by Infoplease.com: pronounced: chu-rē'zō; Sp. chô-rē'sô, -thô, plural: (-zōz; Sp. -sôs, -thôs
• “Chorizo” listed in the BBC Food Glossary (accessed on 17.09.2009): pronounced: ‘chor-eetho’

1. 1 2 “chorizo” in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Merriam-Webster Online.
2. 1 2 3 “chorizo” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.

French

Etymology

From Spanish

Noun

chorizo m ‎(plural chorizos)

1. chorizo

Spanish

Pronunciation

• (z-s distinction) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃoˈɾiθo/
• Rhymes: -iθo
• (seseo merger) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃoˈɾiso/
• Rhymes: -iso

Etymology 1

Possibly from Latin salsicĭum (or a Vulgar Latin form *sauricium), but uncertain. Compare Portuguese chouriço.

Noun

chorizo m ‎(plural chorizos)

1. a type of sausage
2. (Uruguay) a foolish person
3. (vulgar, slang, Latin America) a ****
4. (slang, Costa Rica) corruption
   • 2 February 2014, Isabella Cota, Costa Rica Voters Send Araya, Solis to Second Round Vote, Bloomberg News:

     "A new Costa Rica was born today," Solis told supporters chanting "No more chorizos," slang for corruption, in San José yesterday.

Synonyms

• (sausage): longaniza
• (****): pene, pito, reata, verga

Derived terms

• choripán m
• choriqueso

Etymology 2

From chori, from Caló chorar, to steal

Noun

chorizo m ‎(plural chorizos)

1. (vulgar, Spain) a crook
2. (Spain, Mexico, Chile, colloquial) a thief

Adjective

chorizo m ‎(feminine singular choriza, masculine plural chorizos, feminine plural chorizas)

1. (vulgar, Chile) thefty, stuck-up, haughty

Synonyms

• bobo
• estúpido
• idiota
• retrasado
• subnormal
• tarado