coice
Latin
Verb
coice
- second-person singular present active imperative of coiciō
Portuguese
FWOTD – 13 January 2020
Alternative forms
- couce (now dialectal)
Etymology
From Old Portuguese couce (compare Galician couce), from Latin calcem, accusative of calx.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈkoj.si/ [ˈkoɪ̯.si]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈkoj.se/ [ˈkoɪ̯.se]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈkoj.s(ɨ)/
- Hyphenation: coi‧ce
Noun
coice m (plural coices)
- a kick from a quadruped such as a horse, donkey or camel
- 2011, Tony Crilly, Jorge Nuno Silva (translator), 50 Ideias de Matemática que precisa mesmo de saber, D. Quixoti, page 136:
- Quais são as probabilidades de x cavaleiros num ano receberem um coice fatal de um cavalo?
- What is the probability that x horsemen receive a deadly kick from a horse in a year?
- 2011, Tony Crilly, Jorge Nuno Silva (translator), 50 Ideias de Matemática que precisa mesmo de saber, D. Quixoti, page 136:
- a strong kick with the sole or back of the foot
- 1966, Affonso Henriques, Ascensão e queda de Getúlio Vargas, volume 3, Distribuidora Record, page 303:
- Sr. Otacílio Lopes, redator-chefe de um matutino de Salvador, recebeu um coice no peito, desferido por um dos capangas de Vargas, […]
- Mr. Otacílio Lopes, editor-in-chief of a morning paper in Salvador, was kicked in the chest by one of Vargas’s lackeys, […]
- 1966, Affonso Henriques, Ascensão e queda de Getúlio Vargas, volume 3, Distribuidora Record, page 303:
- (firearms) recoil (pushback from a fired firearm)
- Synonym: recuo
- 2013, James Dashner, Magda Lopes (translator), Mazer Runner: ordem de extermínio, Vergara & Riba Editoras, page 27:
- As mãos saltaram com o coice da arma, mas ele avistou uma névoa vermelha, um esguicho de sangue no ar; […]
- His hands jumped with the recoil, but he saw the red mist, a spray of blood in the air; […]
- (figurative) a curt, rude response; a snap
- Synonym: patada
- 2000, John W. F. Dulles, Carlos Lacerda: a vida de um lutador, Editora Nova Fronteira, page 353:
- Lacerda reclamou que, em lugar de resposta ao seu estudo de 54 páginas, recebera um coice.
- Lacerda complained that, instead of a response to his 54 page study, he was met with a snap.
Derived terms
- coicezinho (diminutive), coicinho (diminutive)
- coicear / coucear
- escoicear / escoucear
- coiceira
Related terms
- calcar
- calcanhar
See also
- chute, patada, pontapé, bicuda