xurro

Borrowed from Spanish churro.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈʃu.ru]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈʃu.ro]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈt͡ʃu.ro]

xurro m (plural xurros)

1. churro (pastry)
2. fluke

   Synonym: xamba

3. (colloquial, figurative, Castilianism) botch, mess

   Synonym: bunyol

xurro m (plural xurros, feminine xurra)

1. (often derogatory, Valencia) a person who speaks Valencian Castilian instead of Valencian Catalan
2. (colloquial) stubborn person

   Synonym: tossut

• xarnego

• “xurro” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “xurro”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “xurro” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “xurro” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• zudre
• zurro

Unknown, but probably from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia/Iberian;[1][2] related to Portuguese enxurro and Portuguese enxurrada (“flash flood”), Portuguese surro (“dirt”), and Spanish churre (“grime”). Also related to several current places named Xudres and Zudres, in local Medieval Latin Scudris, Sudris and Xudris.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃuro̝/

xurro m (plural xurros)

1. liquid manure
2. surface runoff
3. sheep wool grease

• ludre

• surrullar
• xurreira

• “xurro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “xurro” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “xurro” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
• “zurro” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.