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chicharron

chicharron noun: a Spanish dish made from fried pork.

Noun

chicharron (countable and uncountable, plural chicharrons or chicharrones)

  1. A Spanish dish made from fried pork.
  2. A pork rind; pork scratching.
    • Now the shelves are also packed with Mexican spices, tostadas, chicharrones, the walls covered in signs in Spanish for Mary Kay cosmetics, baby sitters and Senator Barack Obama.2007 December 13, Monica Davey, “Immigration, and Its Politics, Shake Rural Iowa”, in New York Times

Forms of chicharron

pluralchicharrons
pluralchicharrones

Origin of chicharron

From Spanish chicharrón.

Questions about chicharron

What does chicharron mean?
Chicharron means a Spanish dish made from fried pork.
What part of speech is chicharron?
Chicharron is a noun.
What is the plural of chicharron?
The plural of chicharron is chicharrons.

Words near chicharron in the dictionary

  1. chicest
  2. chich
  3. chicha
  4. Chichagof
  5. Chicham
  6. chicharron
  7. chicharrones
  8. chicharrons
  9. chichas
  10. Chicheley
  11. chicheme

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