pupusa
pupusa noun: a thick, hand-rolled maize tortilla.
Noun
pupusa (plural pupusas)
- A thick, hand-rolled maize tortilla.
- Below is the last photo I took of my old apartment in MacArthur Park, a neighborhood whose name has been synonymous with danger for decades. From Chelsea Handler’s questionable inquiry about bodies in the park’s lake, made whilst buying pupusas from a street vendor on her Netflix special, to the...2017 January 26, Marissa Clifford, “Why doesn’t MacArthur Park gentrify?”, in Curbed, archived from the original on 26 Jan 2017
- “Computer, pupusa, hot.” “User not recognized.” “[laughing] It's Ensign Boimler. Come on.” “User not recognized.” “Can you, like, hurry it up?” “Computer, any food, hot, please.” “User not recognized.” [laughs]2021 August 26, M. Willis, “We'll Always Have Tom Paris” (0:18 from the start), in Star Trek: Lower Decks, season 2, episode 3, spoken by Brad Boimler (Jack Quaid)
Forms of pupusa
| plural | pupusas |
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Origin of pupusa
Borrowed from Spanish pupusa, from Pipil pupusawa (“swollen”).
Questions about pupusa
- What does pupusa mean?
- Pupusa means a thick, hand-rolled maize tortilla.
- What part of speech is pupusa?
- Pupusa is a noun.
- What is the plural of pupusa?
- The plural of pupusa is pupusas.
Words near pupusa in the dictionary
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