aquellar

From aquello (“that (over ther)”) +‎ -ar.

• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: a‧que‧llar

aquellar (first-person singular present aquello, first-person singular preterite aquellé, past participle aquellado)

1. (transitive, colloquial, obsolete) Used as a placeholder for any verb, usually when the speaker doesn't remember it, doesn't know it, or attempts to avoid it.

   Él aquelló toda la casa.

   He cleaned the entire house.

   Aquellá lo que tiraste, rápido.

   Pick up what you dropped, quickly.

   • 1989, Marcial Morera Pérez, “El verbo español «aquellar»: su definición semántica”, in Anuario del Archivo Histórico Insular de Fuerteventura‎, number 2, page 241:

     Aquella planchita hay que aquellarla para el otro lado

     We need to move that slab to the other side.

2. (pronominal, colloquial, obsolete) Used as a subsitution of any verb, usually when the speaker doesn't remember it, doesn't know it, or attempts to avoid it.

• “aquellar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
• El verbo español "aquellar": su definición semántica