chuzo

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Galician

A nightwatch, armed with a chuzo

Etymology

Attested since 1707. Probably from Spanish chuzo.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): , (western)

Noun

chuzo m (plural chuzos)

rustic spear traditionally used to chase wolves
Synonym: lanza
- 1707, Salvador Francisco Roel, Entremés ao real e feliz parto da nosa raíña:
  Alberte falemos craros
  nosoutros temos a culpa,
  que se foramos armados
  con aguilladas e chuzos,
  ouberàmos de botalos
  alò para en cas de Iudas.
  "Alberte, let's make this clear:
  we are to blame,
  because if we had been armed
  with goads and spears
  we would have driven them back
  there until Judas's house."
spiked stick
piston of a squirt gun

Derived terms

chuzar

References

“chuzo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
“chuzo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
“chuzo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Spanish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˈt͡ʃuθo/
IPA^(key): (Latin America) /ˈt͡ʃuso/
(Spain) Rhymes: -uθo
(Latin America) Rhymes: -uso
Syllabification: chu‧zo

Etymology 1

Unknown. Probably a metathetical variant of azuche (“the pointed end of a pole”) from Arabic الزُجّ (az-zujj), but it may be just expressive.

Noun

chuzo m (plural chuzos)

spiked stick
icicle
Synonym: carámbano
(Chile) old horse
(Chile) idiot; dummy
(Cuba) whip
(Colombia) skewered meat, kebab

Derived terms

caer chuzos de punta

Descendants

→ Catalan: xuixo, xutxo
→ Galician: chuzo
→ Portuguese: chuço

Etymology 2

Verb

chuzo

first-person singular present indicative of chuzar

Further reading

“chuzo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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