charqui
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 21
- Words With Friends
- 22
- Letters
- 7
/ˈt͡ʃɑɹ.ki/
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/ˈt͡ʃɑɹ.ki/ · /ˈt͡ʃɑː.kiː/
Definition of charqui
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(Central-America, South-America, US, Western, countable, uncountable)jerky
“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.”
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Etymology
From the same Quechua root as jerky, via Spanish.
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