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prettygoodwordchipotle (chi-POHT-lay, chee-PAWT-le) - n., a ripe jalapeño pepper dried and smoked for use in cooking.
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Dictionaries pronunciation guides also give other combinations of those syllables, but I have only so many pixels here. Jalapeños are a cultivar of Capsicum annuum developed in Xalapa (formerly spelled Jalapa), Veracruz, Mexico, and the green ones you usually see were picked while they were, well, still green, as in unripened. [Sidebar: Xalapa's name is from Classical Nahuatl Xalapan, from xālli, sand + āpan, place of water, so roughly "spring in the sand."] When ripe, jalapeños are red like most chilies, and chipotles are made by letting them ripen and dry on the vine, then picking them and smoking them for several days, traditionally for six days using pecan wood. The word was taken in the early 1920s from Mexican Spanish chipotle/chilpotle/chilpocle, from Classical Nahautl chīlpōctli, from chīlli, pepper + pōctli, smoke.
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Dictionaries pronunciation guides also give other combinations of those syllables, but I have only so many pixels here. Jalapeños are a cultivar of Capsicum annuum developed in Xalapa (formerly spelled Jalapa), Veracruz, Mexico, and the green ones you usually see were picked while they were, well, still green, as in unripened. [Sidebar: Xalapa's name is from Classical Nahuatl Xalapan, from xālli, sand + āpan, place of water, so roughly "spring in the sand."] When ripe, jalapeños are red like most chilies, and chipotles are made by letting them ripen and dry on the vine, then picking them and smoking them for several days, traditionally for six days using pecan wood. The word was taken in the early 1920s from Mexican Spanish chipotle/chilpotle/chilpocle, from Classical Nahautl chīlpōctli, from chīlli, pepper + pōctli, smoke.
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Date: 2025-09-12 10:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-09-12 11:06 pm (UTC)Yup.