gaspallo
Galician
Alternative forms
Etymology
Obscure. Either related to French gaspiller (“to waste”), from Old French gaspail (“bullet of wheat”), or to Spanish caspa (“fragment”).[1] In the first case, from Proto-Germanic *wisp- (“measure of grain”) or from Proto-Germanic *gaspilþijaną (“to destroy, waste”), from Proto-Indo-European *spel- (“to break off, split”).
Pronunciation
Noun
gaspallo m (plural gaspallos)
- chaff, sliver, fuzz
- cud
- ground, lee
- (obsolete) gazpacho (cold soup elaborated with water, bread, oil and vegetables)
- 1779, Diego Antonio Cernadas y Castro, Obras en prosa y verso del Cura de Fruime (vol. IV), Madrid: Joachin Ibarra, 191-193, 238, page 191:
- Non fagas Copras mordentes, que no teu frío gaspallo, ben conocemos ó Allo, sin que nos mostres os dentes
- Don't do mordant couplets, because in your cold gazpacho, we wholly met the garlic without you showing us the cloves (= without you showing us your teeth)
- 1779, Diego Antonio Cernadas y Castro, Obras en prosa y verso del Cura de Fruime (vol. IV), Madrid: Joachin Ibarra, 191-193, 238, page 191:
Derived terms
- gaspallada (“mass of waste”)
- gaspallar (“to waste”)
- gaspalleiro (“careless; rough”)
- gaspalloso (“rough”)
References
- Template:R:DDLG
- Template:R:TILG
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “gaspallo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
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