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miga

crumb

noun MEE-gah Rare
Food & Drink Ingredients

Also means

inner part of bread

Usage Note

Miga is the soft inner part of a bread loaf (as opposed to the corteza, the crust). In the plural, migas is also a traditional Spanish dish made from fried breadcrumbs. The expression hacer buenas migas means to get along well with someone — a colloquial idiom worth knowing.

Examples

"El pan tiene la miga muy esponjosa."

Natural Translation

The bread has a very spongy crumb.

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