A small cigar or smoking product, sometimes also a thin dried sausage, used in Latin American cuisine and culture.
From Spanish gaspar combined with diminutive suffix -illo. The term likely derives from an older proper name or brand that became genericized in Spanish-speaking regions.
Gasparillo shows how trade goods travel with their regional names—this word appears in Caribbean and Mexican Spanish long before appearing in English dictionaries, revealing historical trade routes and cultural contact.
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