Meanings
plural x-caboquinhos
- A sandwich consisting of sliced buttered marraqueta bread and other ingredients, typical to the Brazilian state of Amazonas.
TUCUMÃ AND CHEESE SANDWICH (X-CABOQUINHO)
2017 December, Instituto Brasil a Gosto, translated by Julia Debasse, Olívia Fraga, and Patrícia Oyama, “Breads and ‘Quitandas’”, in Basics: Brazilian Recipes Encyclopaedia, São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, →ISBN5 more examples
Some snack bars incremented this morning sandwich and created the “x-caboquinho” – besides the French bread roll, the margarine and the tucumã, they also add cheese and fried banana.
2013 December 26, Mouzar Benedito, translated by Phill Turner, “Notes on Manaus and Amazônia”, in Understanding Brazil, the Country of Football, São Paulo: Liz Editora, →ISBNThe fruit [tucumã] is also wedged into a roll with cheese and banana in the x-caboquinho toasted sandwich (£2.50).
2014 June 11, Catherine Balston, “Brazil World Cup city guide: 10 best places to eat and drink in Manaus”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Jun 2014The combination of a buttery tapioca crepe, salty cheese, sweet banana, and the squash-like crunch of slightly bitter tucumã ticks all the boxes for me and is equally as good on a sandwich, or the famous X-Caboquinho.
2016 July 26, Donna Bowater, “Everything You Need to Know About Breakfast Before the 2016 Olympics”, in Roads & Kingdoms, Brooklyn, N.Y.; Barcelona, archived from the original on 02 Sep 2025Depois das gravações do amanhecer, todos experimentaram o “x-caboquinho”, um sanduíche típico da culinária do Amazonas que consiste em um pão francês recheado com pedaços de tucumã, banana-pacova madura e fria, queijo coalho e manteiga.
2021 May 29, Julio Steinmetz, translated by Taylyne Apollo, “Day 1 – New Year’s Eve at Ponta Negra beach. […]”, in The New Universe Age = Love, bilingual edition, part 2 (Beauty), Porto Alegre: Alcance, →ISBNIn the State of Amazonas, the tucumã is the main ingredient of a typical sandwich (x-caboquinho), made with bread or tapioca (manioc flour), cheese, and fried banana.
2021 June 3, Bernardo Tomchinsky, Gabriela G. Gonçalves, Almecina B. Fereira, “Food Composition Data: Edible Plants from the Amazon”, in Michelle Cristine Medeiros Jacob, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque, editors, Local Food Plants of Brazil (Ethnobiology), Cham: Springer Nature, →ISBN, →ISSN, part IV (Food Composition Data on Brazilian Edible Plants by Biome), page 278
Origin
- Latincāseus
- Proto-Germanic*kāsijaz
- Proto-West Germanic*kāsī
- Old Englishċīese
- Middle Englishchese
- Englishcheese
- Proto-Indo-European*kónh₂m
- Proto-Indo-European*kónh₂méh₂-
- Proto-Germanic*hanmōder.?
- Proto-Germanic*hammō
- Old High Germanhammeder.?
- Old High GermanHamme
- Proto-Indo-European*bʰerǵʰ-
- Proto-Indo-European*bʰérǵʰs?
- Proto-Indo-European*bʰergʰ-
- Proto-Indo-European*bʰérgʰs?
- Proto-Germanic*burgz
- Proto-West Germanic*burg
- Old High Germanburg
- Old High GermanHammaburg
- GermanHamburg
- Proto-Indo-European*wer-
- Proto-Germanic*warjaną
- Proto-Germanic*warjaz
- GermanHamburger
- Englishhamburger
- Englishcheeseburger
- PortugueseX-búrguerbf.
- Portuguesex-
- Old Tupikariba
- Old Tupi'ok
- Old Tupikuriboka
- Portuguesecaboco
- Portuguesecaboquinho
- Brazilian Portuguesex-caboquinho
- Englishx-caboquinho
Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese x-caboquinho.
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