Charqui
//ˈt͡ʃɑɹ.ki// noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 jerky Central-America, South-America, US, Western, countable, uncountable
"When it was dark, we made a fire beneath a little arbour of bamboos, fried our charqui (or dried slips of beef), took our maté, and were quite comfortable."
Example
More examples"When it was dark, we made a fire beneath a little arbour of bamboos, fried our charqui (or dried slips of beef), took our maté, and were quite comfortable."
Etymology
From the same Quechua root as jerky, via Spanish.
More for "charqui"
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.