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Spanish
Etymology
From gallofo (“loafing”) + -ear, from gallofa (“food given to beggars”), from the Latin Gallī offa (literally “Frenchman's food, food given to Frenchmen”).
Verb
gallofear (first-person singular present gallofeo, first-person singular preterite gallofeé, past participle gallofeado)
- (informal) to blag; scrounge
Conjugation
1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
2Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
References
- Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
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