Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small deep-fried cube of pork.
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- noun A dish of
Puerto Rican origin, made of friedpork
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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… My Latina identity also includes, because of my particularly adventurous taste buds, morcilla, -- pig intestines, patitas de cerdo con garbanzo -- pigs 'feet with beans, and la lengua y orejas de cuchifrito, pigs' tongue and ears.
PIG’S FEET is the new MUSLIM frankwu 2009
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SEPTEMBER - With the Bushite army advancing on Washington, unemployment at 150\% (many people lost two jobs), global warming turning Mother Earth into one big cuchifrito, and the Supreme Court still dead - locked over whether Osama or Obama is the legitimate U.S. president, the yarmulke-wearing President-elect opted to call off the rest of 2009 and fled to his home state of Hawaii which no one has been able to locate for months.
CounterPunch 2009
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Mimi is a make-believe character in Chinatown but I can give you directions to my favorite cuchifrito in the Bronx for six papa rellena, and directions to Lincoln Hospital for an angioplasty.
La Bloga Manuel Ramos 2009
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Same thing with the spics up here, which word he didn't dare use to their faces or they would cut him up and serve him from a cuchifrito stand.
Money, Money, Money McBain, Ed, 1926- 2001
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They need to make a cuchifrito around 40’s and Lex.
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But i understand its a lot of work. hell I’d even love some guisado (of any kind!) or bacalaitos? even rellenos de papa … when the craving for puerto rican food strikes, i am close enough to hop on the train to williamsburg to my favorite cuchifrito … but if i can walk to your moms cart i SO would!
Sandra’s Puerto Rican Food Makes My Life a Lil’ Brighter | Midtown Lunch: Downtown NYC 2010
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My Latina identity also includes, because of my particularly adventurous taste buds, morcilla (pig intestines), patitas de cerdo con garbanzo (pigs’ feet with beans), and la lengua y orejas de cuchifrito (pigs’ tongue and ears).
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My Latina identity also includes, because of my particularly adventurous taste buds, morcilla (pig intestines), patitas de cerdo con garbanzo (pigs’ feet with beans), and la lengua y orejas de cuchifrito (pigs’ tongue and ears).
Archive 2009-07-01 2009
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- pigs 'feet with beans, and la lengua y orejas de cuchifrito
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