Etymology

chili sin carne

Today it means: A vegetarian version of chili con carne. Full definition →

Spanish chili sin carne
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The story

  1. Spanish · borrowed fromchili sin carne“chili without meat”
  2. English todaychili sin carne

Unadapted borrowing from Spanish chili sin carne (“chili without meat”), based on chili con carne (“chili with meat”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.