bugallo

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Galician

cocos, carrabouxos, bugallos
Coco, carrabouxo, bugallo

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Etymology

Uncertain. Perhaps from Proto-Celtic *bul(l)aka-, whence Old Irish bolach (“swelling, blister”), influenced by Latin galla. Cognate with Portuguese bugalho

Pronunciation

Noun

bugallo m (plural bugallos)

  1. gall (chiefly the oak gall or oak apple)
    Synonyms: bugalla, carrabouxo, coco, mazá de cuco
  2. (figurative) eyeball

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References

  • “bugal” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “bugallo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “bugallo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “bugallo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “bugalla”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
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