chourizo

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Galician

Chourizos
Chourizos caseiros artesáns ("homemade artisanal chorizo") for sale, at a fair

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Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese souriço. Compare Portuguese chouriço. Spanish chorizo is borrowed either from Galician or Portuguese.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): (standard) /t͡ʃowˈɾiθo/
  • IPA(key): (seseo) /t͡ʃowˈɾiso/

 

Noun

chourizo m (plural chourizos)

  1. chorizo (local cured and spiced sausage)
    • before 1251, Fernão Garcia Esgaravunha, Esta ama, cuj'é Joam Coelho:
      Nom acharedes em toda Castela / / melhor ventrulho nem melhor morcela / do que a ama com sa mão faz; / e al faz bem, como diz seu marido: / faz bom souriç'e lava bem transido
      You won't find in all of Castille a better ventrulho nor a better morcela of what this lady elaborates with her hands; and the rest she also does it well, as her husband says, she elaborates good chorizo and she washes the sick
    • 1746, Martín Sarmiento, Coloquio de 24 gallegos rústicos:
      estaban os bufetes cheos de lenguas, chourizos, perniles, codelos; de lacós, cachuchas, fociños de cerdo
      the buffets abounded with tongues, chourizos, hams, knucles; with shoulders, heads, snouts of pork

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