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cuchifrito

[ koo-chi-free-toh; Spanish koo-chee-free-taw ]

noun

plural cuchifritos
  1. a small, deep-fried cube of pork, usually from the ear, tail, or stomach.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of cuchifrito1

First recorded in 1960–65; from South American Spanish ³¦³Ü³¦³óí “pig,†from Spanish cochino “pig,†from the exclamation coch, used to drive or summon pigs + frito “fried†( fry 1( def ) )
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Example Sentences

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"We felt the vibrations of the community, we felt the people, riding their motorcycles, music blaring from people's cars, smelling the food coming from the Cuchifrito down the block. I hope that people get excited to hope, and that they feel excited about telling their own stories about where they're from."

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They were of all kinds, these streaming and working and dealing, these various platoons of Koreans, Indians, Vietnamese, Haitians, Colombians, Nigerians, these brown and yellow whatevers, whoevers, countless unheard nobodies, each offering to the marketplace their gross of kimchee, lichee, plantain, black bean, soy milk, coconut milk, ginger, grouper, ahi, yellow curry, cuchifrito, jalapeno, their everything, selling anything to each other and to themselves, every day of the year, and every minute.

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