churro - Translation in LEO’s English ⇔ Spanish Dictionary

Possible base forms

churro
churrar (Verb)

Nouns

flour, water and salt-based dough (in Latin America it also contains eggs) in the form of sticks, loops or spirals, which is fried in oil and served coated in sugar or filled with chocolate, custard or dulce de leche and eaten for breakfast or as an afternoon snack, together with a cup of hot chocolate or coffee with milk.	el churro
sorry effort	el churro [coll.]
luck	el churro [coll.]   - acierto casual
serendipity	el churro [coll.]   - acierto casual
botch	el churro [coll.]   - chapuza
botched job	el churro [coll.]   - chapuza
shoddy piece of work	el churro [coll.]   - chapuza
fortune   - chance, luck	el churro [coll.]   - acierto casual
dog's dinner [coll.] (Brit.)   - poor piece of work	el churro [coll.]   - chapuza
pool noodle [SPORT.]	churro (de piscina)   [Swimming]
swim noodle [SPORT.]	churro (de piscina)   [Swimming]
swimming noodle [SPORT.]	churro (de piscina)   [Swimming]
a sweet made from flour, oil and salt, shaped like a stick, ribbon or roll and fried in oil. It is served sprinkled with sugar and is usually eaten dipped in chocolate [COOK.]	churro
typical Spanish and Latin American long, fried dough, usually eaten for breakfast or in the afternoon together with a hot chocolate or coffee [COOK.]	el churro

Adjectives / Adverbs

haphazardly  adv.

de (puro) churro

Verbs

to piss  | pissed, pissed | [sl.] [vulg.]	churrar   regional [vulgar]
to pee  | peed, peed | [coll.]	churrar   regional [vulgar]
to piss down [vulg.]	churrar   regional [vulgar]
to whiz   or: whizz  | whizzed, whizzed | (Amer.) [coll.]	churrar   regional [vulgar]

Phrases / Collocations

to botch sth. (up)  | botched, botched |

hacer un churro [coll.]

Orthographically similar words

charro, chorro, churra, churre, curro

Related search terms

azar, fario, casualidad, ventura, chepa, potra, chapuza, suerte