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Italian
Etymology
From bocca (“mouth”) + -eggiare.
Verb
boccheggiàre (first-person singular present bocchéggio, first-person singular past historic boccheggiài, past participle boccheggiàto, auxiliary avére) (intransitive)
- to fight for breath; to gasp; to pant
- Synonym: ansimare
2019, George Orwell, translated by Nicola Gardini, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Mondadori:Adesso si dimenava sul pavimento, boccheggiando.- She was thrashing about on the floor, fighting for breath.
- (literally, “She was squirming on the floor, panting.”)
- to be dying; to draw in one's last breaths
- Synonyms: essere in fin di vita, agonizzare, rantolare
- (figurative, by extension) to find oneself in grave difficulty; to struggle
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Further reading
- boccheggiare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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