bugio

From English boogie, of uncertain origin.

• IPA^(key): /buˈɡio/
• Rhymes: -io
• Hyphenation: bu‧gi‧o

bugio (uncountable, accusative bugion)

1. (music) boogie-woogie

Perhaps a confluence of buco and pertugio.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbu.d͡ʒo/
• Rhymes: -udʒo
• Hyphenation: bù‧gio

bugio (feminine bugia, masculine plural bugi, feminine plural bugie or buge)

1. (obsolete) hollow

   Synonyms: bucato, cavo

   • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Paradiso, Le Monnier, published 2002, Canto XX, page 360, lines 25–27:

     così, rimosso d'aspettare indugio, ¶ quel mormorar de l'aguglia salissi ¶ su per lo collo, come fosse bugio.

     Even thus, relieved from the delay of waiting, that murmuring of the eagle mounted up along its neck, as if it had been hollow.

• bogio (obsolete)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese bogio, from Bugia (“Bejaia”), from Arabic بِجَايَة (bijāya).^[1]

Cognate with English boogie and Italian bugia.

• Rhymes: -iu, -iw
• Hyphenation: bu‧gi‧o

bugio m (plural bugios, feminine bugia, feminine plural bugias)

2. howler monkey (any monkey in the genus Alouatta)

   Synonym: (Brazil) guariba

3. (archaic) monkey

   Synonym: macaco

   • 1587, Gabriel Soares de Sousa, chapter CIV, in Notícia do Brasil, Salvador; republished as Francisco Adolpho de Varnhagen, editor, Tratado descriptivo do Brazil em 1587, 2nd edition, Rio de Janeiro: João Ignancio da Silva, 1879, page 234:

     Ha nos matos da Bahia outros bogios, a que os indios chamam saîanhangá, que quer dizer bogio diabo, que são muito grandes, e não andam senão de noite […]

     There are other monkeys in Bahia's forests that the Indians call “saîanhangá”, meaning “devil monkey”, which are very big and only come out at night.

• “bugio”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “bugio”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
• “bugio”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “bugio”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025