porcallada
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Galician
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From porcalla (“pig”) + -ada.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]porcallada f (plural porcalladas)
- filth
- Synonym: lixo
- 1932, Otero Pedrayo, Contos do camiño e da rúa, page 66:
- A moreniña fina, xentil, criada na miseria e na porcallada cun pai zapateiro borrachón, unha nai rifona, vendedora de carqueixas no portal, e un fato de irmáns enlarafuzados, sempre cheos de croques e mancaduras do frío e dos cantazos
- The thin, gentle little brunette, grown up in the misery and the filth of a drunkard father, shoemaker; a grumpy mother, seller of brushwood at the gates; and a bunch of dirty-faced brothers, always covered with bumps and injuries because of cold and pebbles
- crap
- Synonym: trapallada
- dirty place or dirty fact
- Synonym: cochada
- dirty trick, raw deal
- Synonyms: falcatruada, trampa
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “porcallada”, 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), “porcallada”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “porcallada”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN