biascicare
Italian
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editPerhaps from Vulgar Latin *blaesāre, derived from Latin blaesus (“lisping, stammering”, adjective).
Pronunciation
editVerb
editbiascicàre (first-person singular present biàscico, first-person singular past historic biascicài, past participle biascicàto, auxiliary avére) (transitive)
- to eat slowly and loudly
- to mumble
- to say indistinctly; to slur
- 2019, George Orwell, translated by Nicola Gardini, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Mondadori:
- «Che animale schifoso dovevi essere a quei tempi» biascicò.
- "I expect you were a beastly little swine in those days," she said indistinctly.
- (literally, “"What a nasty animal you must have been in those days," she slurred.”)
Conjugation
edit Conjugation of biascicàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- biascicare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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