besugo

Unknown.^[1] Attested in 1242 ("uesugo").

• Hyphenation: be‧su‧go

besugo m (plural besugos)

1. blackspot sea bream (Pagellus bogaraveo)
   • 1417, Ángel Rodríguez González (ed.), Libro do Concello de Santiago (1416-1422). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 75:

     Iten a libra dos corvelos et mugees et robalos et robaliças et reos et vesugos et douradas […] a quatro dineiros cada libra

     Item, the pound of young pollacks and of mullets and of seabasses and of smaller seabasses and of sea trouts and of seabreams and of gilt-head breams […] , four diñeiros each pound

   Synonyms: buraz, ollomol, panchoz

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “uesugo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “vesugo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “besugo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “besugo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “besugo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Spanish besugo.^[1]

• Hyphenation: be‧su‧go

besugo m (plural besugos)

1. seabream
2. (figurative, derogatory) fatso

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• IPA^(key): /beˈsuɡo/ [beˈsu.ɣ̞o]

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• Rhymes: -uɡo
• Syllabification: be‧su‧go

besugo m (plural besugos)

1. blackspot sea bream (Pagellus bogaraveo)
2. booby, dummy, yokel, clumsy (awkward or stupid person)

• pancho

• “besugo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024