sopapo
GalicianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From so (“under”) + papo (“dewlap, chin”), "underchin".
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
sopapo m (plural sopapos)
- smack
- 1807, Anonymous, Primeiro diálogo dos esterqueiros:
- A cada berro que daba
- ibame seando atrás
- p[o]r se acaso me encaixaba
- un sopapo da sua man:
- For each shout he gave
- I was moving back
- in case he delivered me
- a smack of his hand
- 1846, anonymous, Carta de Cristobo a seu tio Don Alifonso de Santiago:
- Os escoleres quixeron
- Compol o diallo d’a zambra
- Con paliq’e cortesias
- Pro os demos repricaban
- Zimbrando sopapos ‘n eles
- Coma quen chobe saraiba.
- the sorcerers wanted to
- appease the devil of the uproar
- with chitchat and courtesies
- but the demons replied
- delivering smacks on them
- as if raining hailstone
- 1807, Anonymous, Primeiro diálogo dos esterqueiros:
- undercut
ReferencesEdit
- “sopapo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “sopapo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “sopapo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
PortugueseEdit
PronunciationEdit
- Rhymes: -apu
- Hyphenation: so‧pa‧po
NounEdit
sopapo m (plural sopapos)
SpanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From so (“under”) + papo (“dewlap”).
NounEdit
sopapo m (plural sopapos)
- smack, whack
- 2015 July 11, “Estados Unidos gana con apuros a Haití y pasa a cuartos de final”, in El País[1]:
- Los 25 primeros minutos fueron un sopapo de vitalidad de Haití a los anfitriones.
- (please add an English translation of this quote)
- 2020 October 11, Alejandro Ciriza, El País[2]:
- El sopapo del rosco - solo uno antes, en la final del año pasado en Roma- le deja grogui.
- The smack in the face from the "duck" [0 score, i.e. losing the set 0-6], which happened just once before, in last year's final in Rome, left him groggy.
- plunger
- Synonyms: sopapa, desatascador, destupidor, sopapo, chupón, destapacaños, chuclete, chupa, ventosa
Further readingEdit
- “sopapo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014