fesga
Galician edit
Etymology edit
From local Vulgar Latin *fessica, from fessus (“cloven, cleft”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
fesga f (plural fesgas)
- crack, groove
- 1953, Antón Zapata Garcia, A roseira da soidade, A Coruña: Roel:
- Apañaba percebes nunha fesga, Chuco de Carracedo, cando un golpe de mar, ¡como unha pouta!, galgante, silandeiro, baticouno nas pedras arneiradas, talmente que, a on moneco
- He, Chuco de Carracedo, was picking gooseneck barnacles in a crack' when a sea blow, as a paw!, jumping up, stealthy, threw him against the barked rocks, as if he was a rag doll