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tuco

tuco noun: a tomato-based pasta sauce, similar to a ragout or bolognese, traditionally consumed in South America.

Noun

tuco (uncountable)

  1. A tomato-based pasta sauce, similar to a ragout or bolognese, traditionally consumed in South America.
    • We ate ñoqui in a tuco sauce that they'd ordered already prepared, and Soriano and I drank wine, a De Lucca cabernet sauvignon, while Felip didn't drink anything at all […]2015, John M. Keller, Abracadabrantesque, New York, N.Y.; […]: Dr. Cicero Books, →ISBN, page 440
    • Customize your tuco sauce: add sliced mushrooms, diced aubergine or sliced spinach, or think of some ideas of your own.2017, Carolyn Caldicott, World Street Food: Easy Recipes for Young Travellers, London: Pimpernel Press Ltd., →ISBN, page 61

Origin of tuco

Borrowed from Spanish tuco.

Questions about tuco

What does tuco mean?
Tuco means a tomato-based pasta sauce, similar to a ragout or bolognese, traditionally consumed in South America.
What part of speech is tuco?
Tuco is a noun.

Words near tuco in the dictionary

  1. tuckus
  2. tuckuses
  3. Tuckwell
  4. Tuckwells
  5. tuclazepam
  6. tuco
  7. tuco-tuco
  8. tuco-tucos
  9. Tucop
  10. tucotuco
  11. tucotucos

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