cacarear
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
From Latin cucurire, which is imitative.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
cacarear (first-person singular present cacareo, first-person singular preterite cacareé, past participle cacareado)
- (transitive) to boast about, to exaggerate the importance of
- a. 1910, Julio Herrera y Reissig, La granja:
- No faltan más que el agua bendita y el hisopo,
para mugir las cándidas consejas del pesebre
y cacarear en ronda las fábulas de Esopo.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (intransitive) to cackle; to laugh loudly
- (intransitive) to cackle (bird)
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of cacarear (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Derived terms edit
See also edit
Further reading edit
- “cacarear”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014