cubanito

Borrowed from Spanish cubanito.

cubanito (plural cubanitos)

1. A bloody mary made with rum instead of vodka created in Cuba.

From cubano +‎ -ito.

• IPA^(key): /kubaˈnito/ [ku.β̞aˈni.t̪o]

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• Rhymes: -ito
• Syllabification: cu‧ba‧ni‧to

cubanito m (plural cubanitos, feminine cubanita, feminine plural cubanitas)

1. diminutive of cubano
2. cubanito
3. (Rioplatense) a tubular waffle cone filled with dulce de leche or custard. Often covered in chocolate.
   • 2021, Pedro Mairal, The Woman from Uruguay (in English), Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 41:

     Three pound cakes, chocolate topping, sprinkles, and cubanitos.

• “cubanito”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024