estricar

Galician

Alternative forms

• estalicar, estelicar, estarricar, esterriquer

Etymology

Probably borrowed from Old French estrikier (“to make longer, to stretch”), whence French étriquer (“to narrow”); ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *strakkjan (“to stretch”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /estɾiˈkaɾ/

Verb

1. (transitive) to stretch
   • 1836, anonymous, La Tertulia de Picaños:

     Non Señor: a culpa está nos da Vila, que son uns papamoscas, e non se lembran máis que de andar mui estricados pola lameda, e botar borra nos Cafés

     No, Sir: it is the townsfolk's fault, who are nothing but loafers and don't worry about anything but walking down de boulevard, well stretched, and dropping grounds at the coffee shops

2. (pronominal) to stretch oneself
   • 1842, Juan Manuel Pintos, Meu querido pai:

     As nosas mulleres

     Subamos de prezo

     Que, ê muito travallo

     È dor mui doente

     Botar á este mundo

     Hum miniño inteiro.

     Com’elas s’estrican,

     Cómo se escrequenan

     Como dan gemidos

     Choros è lamentos,

     Como à côr do rostro

     Toda van perdendo

     È agre bocado

     Qu’a calquer pon medo.

     Our women's

     price we should rise

     because it is hard work

     and aching pain

     to throw to this world

     a whole baby.

     How they stretch,

     how they crouch,

     How they wail,

     cry and lament,

     How the face colour

     they lose entirely.

     It's a sour mouthful

     that makes anyone scared.

Synonyms

• estirar

References

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “estricar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “estarricar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “estricar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “estricar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “estarricar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “estalicar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN