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noun, feminine

pupusa

/puˈpusa/

noun, feminine/puˈpusa/plural: pupusas

pupusa is feminine in Spanish.

a stuffed tortilla; pussy, vulva

Borrowed from Pipil pupusawa (“swollen”). However, linguist Alan King, who has worked on Pipil Nawat, asserts this word is spurious, invented by Salvadoran linguist Pedro Geoffroy Rivas. The word is also absent from Lyle Campbell's lexicon.