Nachos
/ˈnætʃəʊz/ noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A Mexican dish of tortilla chips, covered in melted cheese and sometimes other ingredients. plural, plural-only
- 2 plural of nacho form-of, plural
- 3 Alternative form of naches. alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Example
More examples"Tom ate the entire bag of nachos."
Etymology
Borrowed from Mexican Spanish nachos, from Nacho. Nacho is a common diminutive form of Ignacio (“Ignatius”) in Spanish. The Mexican creator of the dish, Ignacio Anaya (1895–1975), named it after himself in 1943: Nacho's Especiales.