cabrito
cabrito noun: meat from a young goat; kid.
Noun
cabrito (uncountable)
- Meat from a young goat; kid.
- Mutton rivaled beef in prominence until this century, and cabrito, or kid, remains a major food in Nuevo León.1995, Cheryl Alters Jamison, Bill Jamison, The Border Cookbook: Authentic Home Cooking of the American Southwest and Northern Mexico, page 223
- Mr. Dean O. Smith, who is the game warden in the Dripping Springs area, barbecues the cabrito for us, and what a treat that is! Cabrito is a very young Spanish goat between one and a half and two years old.2001, Mary Faulk Koock, The Texas Cookbook: From Barbecue to Banquet-- An Informal View of Dining and Entertaining the Texas Way, page 65
- Synonyms:
- kid
Synonyms of cabrito
Origin of cabrito
Borrowed from Spanish cabrito (“kid”).
Questions about cabrito
- What does cabrito mean?
- Cabrito means meat from a young goat; kid.
- What part of speech is cabrito?
- Cabrito is a noun.
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