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Etymology
Deverbal from espetegar.
Pronunciation
Noun
espetec m (plural espetecs)
- something breaking
2002, Albert Sánchez Piñol, chapter 3, in La pell freda, La Campana, →ISBN:Rere meu vaig sentir un espetec: havien trencat els vidres de la finestra oposada.- Behind me I heard something breaking: they had broken the glass in the window at the other side.
- (figurative) burst
- espetec d'aigua ― cloudburst
1928, Carles Riba, Sis Joans:En sentir-se l'espetec dels trets, el pare d'En Joan va tenir un gran surt.- Hearing the burst of footsteps gave Joan's father a real start.
- (in the plural) fuss
2002, Albert Sánchez Piñol, chapter 17, in La pell freda, La Campana, →ISBN:Em vaig restablir menjant faves de llauna. Feia espetecs amb els llavis i l'Aneris m'obeïa d'immediat. Va desparar la taula, i va despullar-se a corre-cuita.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (dialectal) fuet (type of long thin sausage)
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