apucuyar

Spanish

Etymology

From a- +‎ pucuyo +‎ -ar.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /apukuˈʝaɾ/ [a.pu.kuˈʝaɾ]

• IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /apukuˈʝaɾ/ [a.pu.kuˈʝaɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /apukuˈʃaɾ/ [a.pu.kuˈʃaɾ]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /apukuˈʒaɾ/ [a.pu.kuˈʒaɾ]

• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: a‧pu‧cu‧yar

Verb

apucuyar

1. only used in se ... apucuyar, syntactic variant of apucuyarse.

Further reading

• “apucuyar”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010