acugular

• acogular, acubular

Attested since the 18th century. From a- +‎ cugulo (“excess; heap which raises over the rim of a container”) +‎ -ar. From Latin cucullus.

• IPA^(key):

acugular (first-person singular present acugulo, first-person singular preterite acugulei, past participle acugulado)

1. to overflow; to be packed to the rafters

   Synonym: ateigar

   • 1888, Rufino Ribera Losada, Un bautismo na Ponte do Burgo:

     I o home da dita muller operada ponnos por diante un gran acifate acogulado de cachucha, lacón, chourizos, carne de vaca, pan de millo e viño

     And that woman's husband put before us a large tray packed with pork head and shoulder, chorizos, beef, cornbread and wine

   • 1895, J. D. S., O Sermón:

     A igrexa achábase acugulada de xente.

     The church was packed to the rafters with people.

   • 1898, Juan Pla Zubiri, O que garga sempre ten:

     Asín as cousas o tempo fuxía coma un lóstrego e o bon de Bertoliño ó cabo dalgúns anos, cando xa se atopou coa faltriqueira acugulada de douradas e lucias moedas.

     That's the way things are: time was fleeing as a lightning and good Little Bertold, after some years, found himself with the moneybag overflowing with golden and brilliant coins.

   • 1908, Recordos da feira de San Martiño:

     En difrentes sitios da carballeira estaban as pulpeirías cos seus caldeiros cobrizos acugulados de pulpo, postos a ferver riba de grandes fogueiras que envolvían en nubes de fume a feira toda i ameazaban afogar á xente menos á pulpeira que polo visto tiña agallas de tiburón e polo mesmo non lle impidía de rogar ca súa mercancía berrando: «¡Comprádeme o pulpooo...! ¡Ai que rico é, mociños..., ai que rícooo...!»

     At diverse places along the oak grove there were octopus post, with their bronze cauldrons overflowing with octopuses boiling over large bonfires which covered in smoke clouds all the fair, and menaced to choke all of the attendants with the exception of the cook, who apparently had shark gills which allowed her to advertise her merchandise shouting "Buy my octopus...! It's so delicious, boys... so delicious!"

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “acugular”, 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), “acugular”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “acugular” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “acugular”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN