fungar

Attested since 1746. Probably onomatopoeic; alternatively from Vulgar Latin *fumicare, from fūmus (“steam”).

• IPA^(key): /fuŋˈɡaɾ/, (western) /fuŋˈkaɾ/

fungar (first-person singular present fungo, first-person singular preterite funguei, past participle fungado)

1. (intransitive) to snivel (to breathe heavily)
   • 1775, María Francisca Isla y Losada, Romance:

     Tamen bay ese tabeque
     meu velliño, pois fungàs
     que cada grao de èl gorenta,
     con eso as fremas sairàn.

     Also there it goes this tobacco,
     my little old man, since you snivel:
     each grain of it is delectable,
     with this phlegms will go out.

2. (intransitive) to smell, to sniff (to detect a scent)
3. (intransitive) to expel air through the nose
4. (intransitive) to speak nasally

   Synonym: narnexar

5. (intransitive) to hum
   • 1883, Manuel Lago, Obra:

     Ai! Cando funguen os ventos nas polas do castañal xa non ruxirán as armas qu'alí tiñan nosos pais...! Donde fixemos fogueiras os carrascos nacerán, e no dolmen en qu'ibamos de noite a sacrificar, criaránse herbas e toxos i os mouchos aniñarán... Cobrirán silvas i hadreiras as pedras do noso lar, e sobr'as mámoas dos mortos xente allea pasará

     Woe! When the winds hum in the chestnut branches no longer will roar our father's arms there! Where we lighted bonfires, oaks will grow, and at the dolmen where we made our sacrifices at night, weeds and gorses will grow and the owl will make nest... Brambles and ivies will cover the stones of our home, and over the barrows of the dead, alien people will walk

6. (intransitive) to whimper
7. (intransitive) to grumble
8. (transitive, pronominal) to blow one's nose

• refungar

• “fungar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “fungar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (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), “fungar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “fungar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

fungar

1. first-person singular future active indicative of fungor

Possibly onomatopoeic.

• Rhymes: -aʁ
• Hyphenation: fun‧gar

fungar (first-person singular present fungo, first-person singular preterite funguei, past participle fungado)

1. (intransitive) to snivel (to breathe heavily)

   Você estava a fungar de raiva.

   You were breathing heavily because of your anger.

2. (intransitive) to sigh (to express frustration by exhaling audibly)

   Synonym: suspirar

3. (colloquial, transitive) to smell; to sniff (to detect a scent)

   Synonyms: farejar, cheirar, sentir cheiro de

4. (intransitive) to whimper (to cry or sob softly and intermittently)

   Synonym: choramingar

• “fungar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
• “fungar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “fungar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN