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noun (uncountable)
- A snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating.
Translations: - Dutch: gepofte maí¯s , pof-maí¯s , popcorn
- French: popcorn , maí¯s soufflé (italbrac, Canadian French)
- German: Popcorn , Puffmais
- Spanish: palomitas de maíz (italbrac, especially Costa Rica, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Spain), cabritas (italbrac, Chile), cancha (italbrac, Peru - also canchita), canguil (italbrac, Ecuador), cocaleca (italbrac, Dominican Republic), cotufas (italbrac, Spain"s Canary Islands, Venezuela), crispetas (italbrac, Colombia), gallitos (italbrac, Northwestern Venezuela), maíz pira (italbrac, Colombia), millo (italbrac, Panama), pipoca (italbrac, Bolivia), pochoclo (italbrac, Argentina), pop (italbrac, Uruguay), popcorn (italbrac, Panama, Puerto Rico), poporopo (italbrac, Guatemala), pororó (italbrac, Paraguay, Northern and Western Argentina, Uruguay, Eastern Bolivia), pururíº (italbrac, Northern Central Argentina), rosetas de maíz (italbrac, El Salvador, Puerto Rico, Southern Spain), rositas de maíz (italbrac, Cuba), tostón, tostones (italbrac, Southeastern Spain), tutuca (italbrac, Northern Central Argentina)
Etymology: From English popped (shortned) + corn
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