chuzo
Galician
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A nightwatch, armed with a chuzo
Etymology
Attested since 1707. Probably from Spanish chuzo.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈt͡ʃu.θʊ], (western) [ˈt͡ʃu.sʊ]
Noun
chuzo m (plural chuzos)
- rustic spear traditionally used to chase wolves
- 1707, Salvador Francisco Roel, Entremés ao real e feliz parto da nosa raíña:
- Alberte falemos craros
nosoutros temos a culpa,
que se foramos armados
con aguilladas e chuzos,
ouberàmos de botalos
alò para en cas de Iudas.- "Alberte, let's make this clear:
we are to blame,
because if we had been armed
with goads and spears
we would have driven them back
there until Judas's house."
- "Alberte, let's make this clear:
- Synonym: lanza
- 1707, Salvador Francisco Roel, Entremés ao real e feliz parto da nosa raíña:
- spiked stick
- piston of a squirt gun
Derived terms
- chuzar
References
- “chuzo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “chuzo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “chuzo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Spanish
Etymology
Unknown. Probably a metathetical variant of azuche (“the pointed end of a pole”) from Arabic الزُجّ (az-zujj), but it may be just expressive.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /ˈt͡ʃuθo/ [ˈt͡ʃu.θo]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /ˈt͡ʃuso/ [ˈt͡ʃu.so]
- (Spain) Rhymes: -uθo
- (Latin America) Rhymes: -uso
- Syllabification: chu‧zo
Noun
chuzo m (plural chuzos)
- spiked stick
- icicle
- Synonym: carámbano
- (Chile) old horse
- (Chile) idiot; dummy
- (Chile) whip
- (Colombia) skewered meat, kebab
Derived terms
- caer chuzos de punta
Descendants
- → Catalan: xuixo, xutxo
- → Galician: chuzo
- → Portuguese: chuço
Verb
chuzo
- first-person singular present indicative of chuzar
Further reading
- “chuzo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- Corriente, F. (1997) A Dictionary of Andalusi Arabic (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East; 29), Leiden, New York, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, LCCN 96052434, page 218
- Simonet, Francisco Javier (1888) Glosario de voces ibéricas y latinas usadas entre los mozárabes (in Spanish), Madrid: Establecimiento tipográfico de Fortanet, page 536