cacarear
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin cucurire, which is imitative.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kakaɾeˈaɾ/ [ka.ka.ɾeˈaɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: ca‧ca‧re‧ar
Verb
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
Derived terms
- cacareador
- cacareo
- como el gallo de Morón, sin pluma y cacareando
See also
Further reading
- “cacarear”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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