Meanings
nouncuchufli pl (plural only)
- pluralplural onlyA Spanish tubular dessert flavoured with vanilla
There were plants from the Atacama Desert, like the pink petals of the fragrant Rosa del año, used to enliven a cuchufli, a tubular wafer usually sold by street vendors, and guanaco, an undomesticated relative of the alpaca, sliced thin and paired with murtilla, sometimes called Chilean guava.
2015 October 7, Nicholas Gill, “Charting New Frontiers in Chilean Cuisine”, in New York Times
Origin
- Spanishcuchuflí
- Englishcuchufli
From Spanish cuchuflí.
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cuchufli. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cuchufli
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Chicago
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