chocallo

chocallo

Galician

A peliqueiro (a Galician carnivalesque character) wearing chocas or chocallos ("cowbells").

Etymology

from choca +‎ -allo, from Proto-Celtic *klokkos (“bell”): compare Welsh cloch, Irish clog.[1]

Cognate with Portuguese chocalho.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃoˈkaʎo̝/

Noun

chocallo m (plural chocallos)

1. cowbell

Synonyms

• choca, cinzarra.

References

• “chocallo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “chocallo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “chocallo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

1. Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1983–1991), “chocallo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos