Noun: Dorito
| Singular | Dorito |
| Plural | Doritos |
Sample Sentences
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[Timmy] offered her his bag of Doritos. [1991, Ellen Emerson White, “The Boy Next Door”, in Thirteen: Thirteen Tales of Horror, page 302:]
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I looked out the kitchen window at my garden, my trenches, my dirt, and then my gaze turned downward toward my Dorito-stained hand. [2010, Stacy Alaimo, Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self, page 12:]
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Stuffing the last Dorito chip into her mouth, she brushed the salt from her hands. [2013, Pamela Yaye, Games of the Heart:]
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2025 June 27, Hank Green, “You’re Not Addicted to Content, You’re Starving for Information”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9euKCrTyMEc, vlogbrothers
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We thought that if you gave people information about how many calories were in Doritos, it would make them healthier. […] I don't think the solution is to deeply understand the chemical and caloric content of a Dorito.
Nouns inflected like Dorito
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Marketing coinage, likely from Spanish dorar (“to gild”), dorado (“golden”), with an ending matching other brands of Frito-Lay Inc. (Cheetos, Fritos, Tostitos), from Spanish frito (“fried”), also possibly as a clipping of Spanish doradito (“little golden [thing]”), diminutive of dorado (“golden”). See: Spanish Nouns '
frito'.