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Burrito
Definitions
- 1 A Mexican dish consisting of a flour tortilla wrapped around a filling of meat and/or beans, cheese etc.
- 2 a flour tortilla folded around a filling wordnet
- 1 To wrap someone or something up like a burrito. slang
"“You're stealing the blankets,” Zack complained, tugging at the duvet that, somehow, Aaron had completely burritoed himself in."
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish burrito, diminutive of burro (“donkey”), from burrico (“donkey”), from Latin burricus (“small horse”), from burrus (“red-brown”), from Ancient Greek πυρρός (purrhós, “flame-colored”), from πῦρ (pûr, “fire”). The food is so called because of its resemblance to a rolled up pack as typically carried by donkeys, making it an example of synecdoche.
Borrowed from Spanish burrito, diminutive of burro (“donkey”), from burrico (“donkey”), from Latin burricus (“small horse”), from burrus (“red-brown”), from Ancient Greek πυρρός (purrhós, “flame-colored”), from πῦρ (pûr, “fire”). The food is so called because of its resemblance to a rolled up pack as typically carried by donkeys, making it an example of synecdoche.
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