merengue

From American Spanish merengue, from French meringue. Doublet of meringue.

• IPA^(key): /məˈɹɛŋɡeɪ/

merengue (countable and uncountable, plural merengues)

1. (music, uncountable) A type of music common in the Caribbean, originally associated with the Dominican Republic.
   • 2007, January 7, “Alex Mindlin”, in For a Shuttered Marina, Some Regret, Some Relief‎:

     The marina was a mainstay of the neighborhood, and Mr. O’Rourke was known for staging salsa and merengue concerts.

2. A song performed in this style.
3. A dance to this style of music.
   • 2011, Elizabeth Drake-Boyt, Latin Dance, →ISBN, page 86:

     If Trujillo said everybody had to dance the merengue, then everybody danced the merengue, for so feared was he by Dominicans that it was said that even a glance from him had the power to kill someone from across the street.

merengue (third-person singular simple present merengues, present participle merenguing, simple past and past participle merengued)

1. (intransitive) To dance to merengue music.

< Spanish merengue

• IPA^(key): /ˈmereŋːe/, [ˈme̞re̞ŋːe̞]

merengue

1. merengue (music and dance)

From Spanish merengue, itself borrowed from French meringue.

• IPA^(key): /me.ʁɛn.ɡe/

merengue m (plural merengues)

1. (music) merengue

From French meringue.

• IPA^(key): /meˈɾenɡe/ [meˈɾẽŋ.ɡe]
• Rhymes: -enɡe
• Syllabification: me‧ren‧gue

merengue m (plural merengues)

1. merengue (a type of music common in the Caribbean)
2. meringue
3. wuss; wimp

• → English: merengue
• → French: merengue

merengue m or f (plural merengues)

1. (soccer) a person connected with Real Madrid, as a player, fan, coach, etc.

merengue

1. inflection of merengar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• “merengue”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014