Meanings
nouncharqui (countable and uncountable, plural charquis)
plural charquis
- Central AmericaSouth AmericaUSWesterncountableuncountablejerky
When it was dark, we made a fire beneath a little arbour of bamboos, fried our charqui (or dried slips of beef), took our maté, and were quite comfortable.
1839, Charles Darwin, Journal of Researches, John Murray, published 1913, page 273
Origin
From the same Quechua root as jerky, via Spanish.
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