etzibar

Catalan

Etymology

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central) [ə.d͡ziˈβa]
  • IPA(key): (Balearic) [ə.d͡ziˈba]
  • IPA(key): (Valencian) [e.d͡ziˈbaɾ]
  • Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

Verb

etzibar (first-person singular present etzibo, first-person singular preterite etzibí, past participle etzibat)

  1. (transitive) to hit with
    Synonym: pegar
    • 2020 December 12, Toni Pou, “El pop o l’experiment més agosarat de l’evolució [The octopus, or evolution's most daring experiment]”, in Ara:
      En un laboratori de Nova Zelanda n’hi havia un que va agafar una fixació amb una investigadora, fins al punt que sempre que passava pel costat de l’aquari el cefalòpode li etzibava un raig d’aigua al clatell.
      In a laboratory in New Zealand there was one [octopus] who became fixated on a reasearcher, to the point that every time she passed by the tank, the cephalopod hit her nape with a jet of water.
  2. (figurative) to blurt (to utter suddenly and unadvisedly)
    • 2002, Albert Sánchez Piñol, chapter 11, in La pell freda, La Campana, →ISBN:
      En Batís, que a la seva manera podia ser molt diplomàtic, em va etzibar des de la cadira on seia: –Vol llibres? Li cal alguna distracció?
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