pinchar

Caló

Alternative forms

• pinchardar

Verb

pinchar

1. to recognize, to know (someone)

Galician

Etymology

Unknown. Perhaps a metathesis of the synonym chimpar, itself hypothetically from an earlier *plimpar, onomatopoeic. Compare Irish plimp (“sudden fall”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pinˈt͡ʃaɾ/

Verb

pinchar (first-person singular present pincho, first-person singular preterite pinchei, past participle pinchado)

1. to take down

   Synonyms: abater, deitar, tirar

   • 1750, anonymous author, Galanteo de mozo e moza:

     Agora si, que cai ben
     aquel conto do Boy manso,
     que nunha corrida de Touros,
     se ò pican, â ollos cerrados
     â hùs lles fura os calzòs,
     outros os pincha rodando,
     este quero, aquel non quero,
     esparcendolle os fargallos,
     hasta que queda à Praza
     espoada âô seu mandado:

     Now it sits well
     that tale of the docile ox,
     that in a bullfight
     if they sting him, as with closed eyes,
     he bore the pants of some,
     others he takes down rolling,
     this one I want, that I don't,
     scattering their rags,
     till the plaza is left
     sieved at his command

2. to cut down a tree
3. to throw down
4. to cause to jump
5. (transitive) to jump over; to overleap
6. (intransitive) to jump

   Synonyms: brincar, chimpar, choutar, saltar

7. to shove

Conjugation

Derived terms

• pinchacarneiro
• pinchagato
• pincheira
• pincheiro
• pincho
• pinchón

Related terms

• chimpar

References

• “pinchar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “pinchar” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
• “pinchar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “pinchar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• “pinchar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: pin‧char

Verb

pinchar (first-person singular present pincho, first-person singular preterite pinchei, past participle pinchado)

1. to jump

Conjugation

Spanish

Etymology

Most likely from a crossing of punchar (itself a variant of punzar, from Vulgar Latin *punctiāre, from Latin punctus), and picar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pinˈt͡ʃaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: pin‧char

Verb

pinchar (first-person singular present pincho, first-person singular preterite pinché, past participle pinchado)

1. to puncture, prick, pierce
2. to poke
3. (animals, needle) to sting
4. (graphical user interface) to click

   Synonyms: hacer clic, cliquear

5. (colloquial) to flirt

   Synonym: ligar

6. (colloquial) to get flirted
7. (music) to deejay, DJ
8. (telephony) to tap someone's phone (call up by telephone and suspend before a conversation is initiated in order to make the receiver call back)
9. (telephony, colloquial) putting some tool for hearing in secret private conversation by phone; eavesdropping
10. (intransitive, colloquial) to slip up (fail)
11. (colloquial) to fuck

    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:joder

12. (colloquial) to wind up, pester
13. (reflexive) to shoot up (to inject drugs intravenously)
    • 2017 July, “Crean dispositivo para medir glucosa a través de saliva”, in Frontera.info‎:

      Cerca de 422 millones de adultos padecen diabetes, y para medir sus niveles de azúcar pasan por una situación incómoda todos los días: deben pincharse el dedo para medir sus niveles de azúcar.

      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Conjugation

Derived terms

Further reading

• “pinchar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014