nacho

From nachos.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈnæt͡ʃəʊ/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈnɑt͡ʃoʊ/
• Rhymes: -ætʃəʊ

nacho (plural nachos)

1. A single tortilla chip from a dish of nachos.

• Chaon, Cohan, ancho

< Spanish nacho

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɑtʃo/, [ˈnɑ̝t̪ʃo̞]

nacho

1. nacho (food)

   Synonym: tortillasipsi

   Alternative form: natso (rare, colloquial)

Borrowed from Spanish nacho.

• Rhymes: -aʃu, -at͡ʃu
• Hyphenation: na‧cho

nacho m (plural nachos)

1. (usually in the plural) nacho (Mexican dish of tortilla chips)

• IPA^(key): /ˈnat͡ʃo/ [ˈna.t͡ʃo]
• Rhymes: -atʃo
• Syllabification: na‧cho

From the personal name Nacho; the Mexican creator of the dish, Ignacio Anaya (1895–1975), named it after himself in 1943. Nacho is a diminutive form of Ignacio.

nacho m (plural nachos)

1. nacho

Inherited from Latin nāsus (“nose”). Compare Portuguese nacho.

nacho (feminine nacha, masculine plural nachos, feminine plural nachas)

1. (Asturias) pug-nosed

• “nacho”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

• ancho

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nacho

1. ki class_(VII) inflected form of na