Charqui

Origin

From the same root as jerky, via Spanish.

Full definition of charqui

Noun

charqui

(South and Central America, Western US) jerky

1839, name, , John Murray (1913), page 273:When it was dark, we made a fire beneath a little arbour of bamboos, fried our charqui (or dried slips of beef), took our matÃ©, and were quite comfortable.