gaspallo

Galician

Alternative forms

• gaspalho (reintegrationist)
• gasgallo

Etymology

Obscure. Either related to French gaspiller (“to waste”), from Old French gaspail (“bullet of wheat”), or to Spanish caspa (“fragment”). In the first case, from Proto-Germanic *wisp- (“measure of grain”) or from Proto-Germanic *gaspilþijaną (“to destroy, waste”), from Proto-Indo-European *spel- (“to break off, split”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɡasˈpaʎʊ]

Noun

gaspallo m (plural gaspallos)

1. chaff, sliver, fuzz
2. cud

   Synonyms: bullo, remoallo, rumiallo

3. ground, lee
4. (obsolete) gazpacho (cold soup elaborated with water, bread, oil and vegetables)
   • 1779, Diego Antonio Cernadas y Castro, Obras en prosa y verso del Cura de Fruime (vol. IV), Madrid: Joachin Ibarra, 191-193, 238, page 191:

     Non fagas Copras mordentes, que no teu frío gaspallo, ben conocemos ó Allo, sin que nos mostres os dentes

     Don't do mordant couplets, because in your cold gazpacho (= dregs), we wholly met the garlic (= it's excessive) without you showing us the cloves (= without you showing us your teeth)

Derived terms

• gaspallada (“mass of waste”)
• gaspallar (“to waste”)
• gaspalleiro (“careless; rough”)
• gaspalloso (“rough”)

References

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “gaspallo”, 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), “gaspallo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “gaspallo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
• “gaspallo”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025