charqui

[ chahr-kee ]

/ ˈtʃɑr ki /

jerky².

Origin of charqui

< American Spanish < Quechua ch'arki

char·quid

[chahr-kid] /ˈtʃɑr kɪd/, adjective

The Spaniards of Mexico name it “tasajo,” while those of Peru style it “charqui.”

The Bush Boys |Captain Mayne Reid
Homely indeed were the additions thus made to their daily ration of charqui beef, horse-flesh or kangaroo.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. |Various
Then Guapo skinned him, and cut him into strips, and dried him into “charqui,” and carried him on board the raft.

The Forest Exiles |Mayne Reid
Maize and charqui were packed into knapsacks for the march, and the pirates rowed ashore to open the campaign.

On the Spanish Main |John Masefield

Sometimes it was merely cut in strips, roughly rubbed with brine, and hung in the sun to dry into charqui, or jerked beef.

On the Spanish Main |John Masefield

charqui

/ (ˈtʃɑːkɪ) /

meat, esp beef, cut into strips and dried

charquid (ˈtʃɑːkɪd), adjective

C18: from Spanish, from Quechuan