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Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Sicilian cosca (“rib, branch”), dialectal variant of Sicilian costa. Doublet of costola.
Pronunciation
Noun
cosca f (plural cosche)
- clan (of the Mafia)
- coterie, ingroup, inner circle, camp
Anagrams
Old Irish
Verb
·cosca
- third-person singular present subjunctive prototonic of con·secha
Portuguese
Etymology
Alteration of cócegas. Compare Spanish coscas.
Pronunciation
Noun
cosca f (plural coscas)
- (informal) tickle
- Synonyms: cócegas, (informal) cosquinha
Derived terms
Further reading
- “cosca”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), São Paulo: 7Graus, 2009–2025
Spanish
Verb
cosca
- only used in se cosca, third-person singular present indicative of coscarse
- only used in te ... cosca, syntactic variant of cóscate, second-person singular imperative of coscarse