/Sounds like "poh" (as in "pole") + "POH" (as in "pole") + "teh" (as in "ten" without "n")/
A drinking straw, that little tube you stick in your glass to sip. In Mexico it's the default word for straw, and now the eco-friendly cardboard ones are replacing the plastic originals.
"Give me a straw for the horchata."
"They don't give out plastic straws anymore, now they're all cardboard."
/Sounds like "poh" (as in "pole") + "POH" (as in "pole") + "teh" (as in "ten" without "n")/
A drinking straw, that little tube you stick in your glass to sip. In Mexico it's the default word for straw, and now the eco-friendly cardboard ones are replacing the plastic originals.
"Give me a straw for the horchata."
"They don't give out plastic straws anymore, now they're all cardboard."