ixuxú

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Asturian

FWOTD – 4 April 2019

Alternative forms

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /iʃuˈʃu/
  • Rhymes: -u
  • Hyphenation: i‧xu‧xú

Interjection

ixuxú

  1. a battle cry or challenge
    • 1997, Perfecto Fernández Usatorre, Poesía y teatru, Academia de la Llingua Asturiana, page 19:
      —Ya 'stoy llistu. / —Pos entóncenes en marcha. / ¡Ixuxú! ¡Viva Piloña! / ¡Viva Xixón! ¡Viva Pravia!
      "I'm ready now." / "Then let's get moving." / Ixuxú! Long live Piloña! Long live Gijón! Long live Pravia!
  2. a cry of joy or excitement; hurrah!
    • 1887, Higinio del Campo y Cañaverales, L'Enviernu‎:
      ¡Ijujú, viva l’enviernu!
      Hurrah, long live winter!
    • 1988, Ánxel Antón García, Queta: dibuxos de Neto y Chimo, Escolín, page 108:
      —¡Bien, bien! Tres IXUXÚ pol güelu de Rique. / —¡IXUXÚ! ¡IXUXÚ! ¡IXUXÚ!
      "Good, good! Three cheers for Rique's grandfather." / "Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah!"

Noun

ixuxú m (plural ixuxús or ixuxú)

  1. an instance of shouting ixuxú
    • 1872, Teodoro Cuesta, A la memoria de Don Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, en el aniversario de su natalicio‎:
      mil y mil ixuxús llancien al vientu.
      a thousand and a thousand hurrahs they cry into the wind.
    • 1925, Fabriciano González García, Maruxina‎:
      Y echar un ixuxús
      and shout a hurrah
    • 1944, Constantino Cabal, Ena lluz melanconiosa‎:
      ixuxús de los rapazos y cantares de les moces,
      hurrahs from the boys and songs from the girls

Further reading

  • “ixuxú” in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana. Xosé Lluis García Arias. →ISBN.
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