botifarra

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English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Catalan botifarra.

Noun

botifarra (plural botifarras)

  1. A spiced pork sausage typical of Catalan cuisine.
    • 2015 April 17, Lisa Abend, “Sweet and Salty: Majorca’s Traditional Cuisine”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:
      He squeezed oranges for juice to go with the botifarra, a pork sausage spiced with cloves and cumin, and the spreadable sobrassada, tinted red from Majorcan paprika.

Further reading

Catalan

botifarra blanca

Etymology

From Late Latin buttis (“cask, wineskin”).

Pronunciation

Noun

botifarra f (plural botifarres)

  1. botifarra (spiced sausage)
  2. (uncountable, card games) a Catalan card game
  3. a Catalan hand gesture indicating disapproval

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Spanish: butifarra

Further reading

Portuguese

Etymology

Augmentative of bota (“boot”).

Pronunciation

 

  • Hyphenation: bo‧ti‧far‧ra

Noun

botifarra f (plural botifarras)

  1. (colloquial) thick and large boot

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