[1885–90, Amer.; ‹ Sp, perh. after dial. churro name for the inhabitants of the mountainous parts of Valencia (lit., a kind of coarse-wooledsheep), the approximate area where the pastry originated]This word is first recorded in the period 1885–90. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: classified, foregut, retread, toner, zoom