Meanings
- uncountablecookingMeat from a young goat; kid.
Consuela and Sullivan had been cooking all night so there was plenty of beef and cabrito.
2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 1162 more examples
Mutton rivaled beef in prominence until this century, and cabrito, or kid, remains a major food in Nuevo León.
1995, Cheryl Alters Jamison, Bill Jamison, The Border Cookbook: Authentic Home Cooking of the American Southwest and Northern Mexico, page 223Mr. Dean O. Smith, who is the game warden in the Dripping Springs area, barbecues the cabrito for us, and what a treat that is! Cabrito is a very young Spanish goat between one and a half and two years old.
2001, Mary Faulk Koock, The Texas Cookbook: From Barbecue to Banquet-- An Informal View of Dining and Entertaining the Texas Way, page 65Synonyms: kid
Synonyms & antonyms
nounMeat from a young goat; kid.
Origin
- Spanishcabrito“kid”
- Englishcabrito
Borrowed from Spanish cabrito (“kid”).
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