enxugar

Attested since circa 1300. From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin exsūcāre, present active infinitive of exsūcō. Cognate with Portuguese enxugar and Spanish enjugar.

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enxugar (first-person singular present enxugo, first-person singular preterite enxuguei, past participle enxugado)

1. (transitive) to wipe dry; to dry

   Synonym: secar

   • 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Publicacións de Archivum, page 89:

     enxugauam aquelas carnes et peyxes ao sol

     they dried those meats and fish in the sun

   • 1460, E. Cal Pardo, editor, Monasterio de San Salvador de Pedroso en tierras de Trasancos. Colección documental, A Coruña: Deputación Provincial, page 276:

     dita cortinna ias açerca da villa de Ferrol, onde se acustuma de lavar as redes et enxugar

     said garden is near the town of Ferrol, where there is customary to wash and dry the nets

   • c. 1840, Ramón Varela Vahamonde, Conversa entre os arrieiros:

     ¡Pereirolo! ¡Santo Cristo!
     Ese en beber é doutor
     E, metido a opositor,
     Chegaba pronto á arcebispo.
     Co’aquel mirar seu mourisco,
     Zampa en vasos cal en figos,
     Ao lado de catro amigos,
     Axiña enxuga un pelexo

     Pereirolo! Holy Christ!
     He's a doctor of drinking
     and, if he would become a candidate,
     soon he'll be archbishop.
     With these Moorish looks of his,
     he gulps glasses as well as figs,
     together with four friends,
     in no time he dries a skin

• enxoito

• Ernesto González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “enxugar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “enxug”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• “enxugar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “enxugar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “enxugar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• “enxugar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin exsūcāre, with a change of prefix. Compare Spanish enjugar.

enxugar (first-person singular present enxugo, first-person singular preterite enxuguei, past participle enxugado, short past participle enxuto)

1. (transitive) to wipe dry
2. to slim down

• suco

• enxuto
• secar