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chupe

chupe noun: a stew containing meat and potatoes, part of Chilean and Peruvian cuisine.

Noun

chupe (uncountable)

  1. A stew containing meat and potatoes, part of Chilean and Peruvian cuisine.
    • Chupe is the Peruvian national dish, and may be made of any and every thing, so long as it holds its relationship to soup. It is made generally of mutton, potatoes, eggs, rice, all highly seasoned with pepper, &c.1854, William Lewis Herndon, Lardner Gibbon, Exploration of the Amazon Valley
    • And as chupe is the eternal and almost always the sole dish obtainable in the interior of Peru and in Bolivia, I may as well dispose of it at once.1868, Harper's New Monthly Magazine

Examples of chupe in a sentence

  • Here can be purchased all the native articles of luxury: coca, chupe, frozen potatoes, parched corn, and chicha […]1911, Hiram Bingham, Across South America:
  • […] but for the most authentic chupe, leave the shells on the shrimp.1985, Felipe Rojas-Lombardi, Soup, Beautiful Soup:

Origin of chupe

Borrowed from Spanish, from Quechua chupi.

Questions about chupe

What does chupe mean?
Chupe means a stew containing meat and potatoes, part of Chilean and Peruvian cuisine.
How do you use chupe in a sentence?
Here can be purchased all the native articles of luxury: coca, chupe, frozen potatoes, parched corn, and chicha […]
What part of speech is chupe?
Chupe is a noun.

Words near chupe in the dictionary

  1. chupatti
  2. chupatties
  3. chupattis
  4. chupatty
  5. chupchap
  6. chupe
  7. Chupei
  8. chupkun
  9. chupkuns
  10. chupon
  11. chupons

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