gorra

gorra

1. (informal, representing slurred pronunciation) Got a.

   You've gorra flippin' nerve showing your face round here.

• Garro

Borrowed from French gorre or Spanish gorra.

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gorra f (plural gorres)

1. cap, baseball cap
2. (Andorra, Urgell) barretina, a typical catalan beret

• “gorra” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “gorra”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “gorra” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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• (Revived Middle Cornish) IPA^(key):
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gorra

1. to put, place, set

• gorra a-bervedh (“insert”)

Unknown, probably from Middle French gorre, itself possibly from Old Occitan .

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡora/
• Rhymes: -ora
• Syllabification: go‧rra

gorra f (plural gorras)

1. cap, baseball cap
   • 1972, “Mariel y el Capitán”, in Vida, performed by Sui Generis:

     Y cuando llega Mariel deja la gorra y sirve té con limón / O a lo mejor café

     And when Mariel arrives, he puts down his cap and serves tea with lemon / Or maybe coffee instead.

2. (slang, Argentina) cop

   Synonyms: tombo, paco, madero

• → Cebuano: gora
• → Hiligaynon: gora
• → Tagalog: gora (dated)

• “gorra”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28