burrito

Pluralburritos

Formsburritos, burritoing, burritoed

1. 1
   nouncountable

   A Mexican dish of a flour tortilla wrapped around a filling of meat or beans, cheese, and other ingredients.

   He grabbed a burrito on his way to work.

   The taqueria rolls each burrito tightly so the filling stays inside.

   Note

   The name is Spanish for "little donkey": burrito is the diminutive of burro, which goes back through Latin burricus, "small horse", to burrus, "red-brown", and finally to Greek purrhós, "flame-colored", from pûr, "fire". English borrowed the Spanish word unchanged and gives it a plain English plural, burritos.

2. 2
   verbslangtransitive

   To wrap a person or object up snugly in a blanket or covering, the way a tortilla encloses a burrito's filling.

   She burritoed her toddler in a fleece blanket before the long drive.

   We always burrito the cat in a towel to clip its nails.

   Similarswaddle, wrap, bundle, cocoon

   Note

   A noun turned verb, borrowing its picture from the wrapped dish: someone rolled up in a blanket the way filling is rolled up in a tortilla. It takes regular endings (burritoed, burritoing) and often turns reflexive with in. Erin McRae and Racheline Maltese's Ink and Ice (2020) has a character who has burritoed himself in the duvet. It is playful slang, so keep it to casual talk and writing.

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