/choor"oh/ ; Sp. /choohrdd"rddaw/ , n. , pl. churros /choor"ohz/ ; Sp. /choohrdd"rddaws/ . Mexican Cookery.
a long, slender, deep-fried pastry resembling a cruller.
[ 1885-90, Amer.; churro name for the inhabitants of the mountainous parts of Valencia (lit., a kind of coarse-wooled sheep), the approximate area where the pastry originated ]