cucar

From cuco (“cuckoo”) +‎ -ar. First attested in the 18th century.

• IPA^(key): /kuˈkaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Hyphenation: cucar

cucar (first-person singular present cuco, first-person singular preterite cuquei, past participle cucado)

1. (intransitive) to cuckoo
2. (transitive) to mock, fool
3. (transitive) to captivate
4. (transitive, eggs) to empty (an egg) by carving two opposite holes on the shell
5. (pronominal) to get fooled

• cuco

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cucar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cucar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cucar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From cuco +‎ -ar,

• IPA^(key): /kuˈkaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: cu‧car

cucar (first-person singular present cuco, first-person singular preterite cuqué, past participle cucado)

1. (transitive, colloquial, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Puerto Rico) to provoke (someone)

   Synonym: provoke

• “cucar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28
• “cucar” in Diccionario de americanismos, Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española, 2010