gavacho
Appearance
Galician
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Attested since 1808 during the Peninsular war. Ultimately from Occitan gavach, originally ‘bird’s crop, goitre, swelling’, later ‘mountain-dweller, northerner, peasant’ (because of the high incidence of disease in these populations). Influenced by gabar (“to boast”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]gavacho (feminine gavacha, masculine plural gavachos, feminine plural gavachas)
Noun
[edit]gavacho m (plural gavachos, feminine gavacha, feminine plural gavachas)
- (vulgar, ethnic slur, slang, derogatory) Frenchy
- 1808, anonymous author, Un labrador que foi sarxento:
- Si eu fora alá, meus queridos, por esta Cruz volo xuro, con mil cabezas francesas, había de vir, moi rufo; Esto con ser xa tan vello; mais vós, con catro estornudos, non deixarés un Gabacho, si poñedes ben os puntos; Ide á guerra, meus garridos, Dios vos axude, meus rulos, e aquel Patrón das Españas, que ten o pelo moi rubio
- If I go there, my loved ones, I swear on this cross that with a thousand French heads I would return, sound and healthy. And this being myself as old as I am. But you, with just four sneezes, won't leave a Frenchy left, if you put the points correctly. Go to war, my fine youngsters, God help you, my darlings, and that patron of the Spains who is so blonde!
References
[edit]- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “gavacho”, 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), “gavacho”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “gabacho”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
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