Spanish, from Old Spanish, tidbit, trifle, joke, from chufar to joke, alteration (influenced by trufar to fib) of chuflar to ridicule, whistle, from (assumed) Vulgar Latin sufilare to whistle, alteration of Latin sibilare
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