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Dorito

/dɔˈritoʊ/

Dorito noun: a tortilla chip of the Doritos brand.

dorito: a tortilla chip of the Doritos brand
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Noun

Dorito (plural Doritos)

  1. A tortilla chip of the Doritos brand.
    • [Timmy] offered her his bag of Doritos.1991, Ellen Emerson White, “The Boy Next Door”, in Thirteen: Thirteen Tales of Horror, page 302
    • I looked out the kitchen window at my garden, my trenches, my dirt, and then my gaze turned downward toward my Dorito-stained hand.2010, Stacy Alaimo, Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self, page 12

Forms of Dorito

pluralDoritos

Origin of Dorito

Marketing coinage, likely from Spanish dorar (“to gild”), dorado (“golden”), with an ending matching other brands of Frito-Lay Inc. (Cheetos, Fritos, Tostitos), from Spanish frito (“fried”), also possibly as a clipping of Spanish doradito (“little golden [thing]”), diminutive of dorado (“golden”).

Words formed from Dorito

Phrases with Dorito

Questions about Dorito

What does Dorito mean?
Dorito means a tortilla chip of the Doritos brand.
What part of speech is Dorito?
Dorito is a noun.
How do you pronounce Dorito?
Dorito is pronounced /dɔˈritoʊ/ (US).
What is the plural of Dorito?
The plural of Dorito is Doritos.

Words near Dorito in the dictionary

  1. doris
  2. Dorised
  3. Dorises
  4. Dorism
  5. Dorisms
  6. Dorito
  7. Dorito bodies
  8. Dorito body
  9. Doritos
  10. Dority
  11. Doritys

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