pinole

¹

[ pi-noh-lee; Spanish pee-naw-le ]

noun

1. corn or wheat, dried, ground, and sweetened, usually with the flour of mesquite beans.

Pinole

²

[ pi-nohl ]

noun

1. a town in W California.

pinole

/ pɪˈnəʊlɪ /

noun

1. (in the southwestern United States) flour made of parched ground corn, mesquite beans, sugar, etc

Word History and Origins

Origin of pinole¹

1835–45, Americanism; < Mexican Spanish < Nahuatl pinolli flour, something ground

Word History and Origins

Origin of pinole¹

from American Spanish, from Nahuatl

Example Sentences

After his run that day, he drank pinole in the four-wheel-drive support vehicle.

From Washington Post

They sometimes left him tortillas and pinole, a porridge of crushed corn and water.

From New York Times

It will be noticed that Vandaih drinks the pinole, which bewitches him, five times instead of the usual four.

From Project Gutenberg

We distributed presents to them, and some pinole.

From Project Gutenberg

Yet it might be a stock of pinole, parched corn, as evidence of Miguel’s forethought against privation on the long eastern trail.

From Project Gutenberg