porcallada
Galician
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɔɾkaˈʎaða/
Noun
porcallada f (plural porcalladas)
- filth
- Synonym: lixo
- 1932, Otero Pedrayo, Contos do camiño e da rúa, page 66:
- A moreniña fina, xentil, criada na miseria e na porcallada cun pai zapateiro borrachón, unha nai rifona, vendedora de carqueixas no portal, e un fato de irmáns enlarafuzados, sempre cheos de croques e mancaduras do frío e dos cantazos
- The thin, gentle little brunette, grown up in the misery and the filth of a drunkard father, shoemaker; a grumpy mother, seller of brushwood at the gates; and a bunch of dirty-faced brothers, always covered with bumps and injuries because of cold and pebbles
- crap
- Synonym: trapallada
- dirty place or dirty fact
- Synonym: cochada
- dirty trick, raw deal
- Synonyms: falcatruada, trampa
Related terms
References
- “porcallada” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “porcallada” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “porcallada” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
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