farruco
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See also: Farruco
Galician
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Farruco, a hypocoristic of Francisco.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]farruco (feminine farruca, masculine plural farrucos, feminine plural farrucas)
Noun
[edit]farruco m (plural farrucos)
- (archaic, derogatory) Frenchy; frog
- Synonym: gabacho
- 1810, José Fernández y Neira, Proezas de Galicia:
- tomeiche o camiño de Neira de Rei para dar cos meus fillos, mais acheiche cinco mil farrucos que estaban alí acampados
- I took the road to Neira de Rei to find my sons, by I was met by five thousand Frenchies who were camping there
References
[edit]- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “farruco”, 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), “farruco”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “farruco”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Spanish
[edit]Adjective
[edit]farruco (feminine farruca, masculine plural farrucos, feminine plural farrucas)
- (colloquial) stroppy
- pertaining to Galician or Asturian emigrants
Further reading
[edit]- “farruco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014