cagar

Inherited from Latin cacāre, from a Proto-Indo-European *kakka-.

• IPA^(key): /kaˈɡaɾ/ [kaˈɣ̞aɾ]
• Rhymes: -ɡaɾ
• Hyphenation: ca‧gar

cagar

1. to shit
2. (reflexive) to shit involuntarily, one's self, to fear a lot

   Cágome cuando la oyo berrame

   I shit myself when I hear her scream at me

3. (vulgar) to tell someone off

   ¡Toi fartu, cago pa ti!

   I'm done, fuck you!

4. to pay someone with malice

Inherited from Latin cacāre, from a Proto-Indo-European *kakka-.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [kəˈɣa]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kaˈɣaɾ]
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

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cagar (first-person singular present cago, first-person singular preterite caguí, past participle cagat)

1. (intransitive, vulgar) to shit
2. (pronominal, vulgar) to shit involuntarily, in public, etc.
3. (transitive, vulgar) to shit out

• cagat
• concagar

• “cagar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “cagar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Old Galician-Portuguese cagar, from Latin cacāre, from a Proto-Indo-European *kakka-. Compare Portuguese, Asturian, Spanish, and Catalan cagar.

• IPA^(key): /kaˈɣaɾ/, /kaˈħaɾ/

cagar (first-person singular present cago, first-person singular preterite caguei, past participle cagado)

1. (vulgar, intransitive) to shit
2. (vulgar, intransitive) to tell someone off, exclamation of rejection

   Vai cagar! ― Go s yourself!

3. (vulgar, transitive) to ruin, to spoil
4. (vulgar, pronominal) to shit oneself (to be very scared)

• cagalla
• cagallón

• caca

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “cagar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “caga”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cagar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “cagar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cagar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cagar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Inherited from Malay cagar, from Old Javanese cagĕr (“to guarantee, ensure”), from Proto-Mon-Khmer *gar, *cgar, *cgaːr (“to fence, to enclose”).^[1]

• The sense of reserve, preserve is semantic loan from Javanese ꦕꦒꦂ (cagar, “preservation”), from the same Old Javanese cagĕr (“to guarantee, to ensure”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃaɡar/ [ˈt͡ʃa.ɡar]
• Rhymes: -aɡar
• Syllabification: ca‧gar

cagar (plural cagar-cagar)

1. guarantee, pledge, security
2. advance payment, down payment

   Synonyms: panjar, uang muka

cagar (plural cagar-cagar)

1. reserve, preserve

   Synonym: lindungan

• “cagar” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

cagar

1. romanization of ꦕꦒꦂ

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin cacāre.

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cagar

1. (vulgar) to shit

• → French: caguer

Inherited from Latin cacāre, from a Proto-Indo-European *kakka-.

• IPA^(key): /kaˈɡaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ

cagar

1. to shit

• Galician: cagar
• Portuguese: cagar

• Universo Cantigas - "cagar"

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cagar, from Latin cacāre, from a Proto-Indo-European *kakka-. Compare Galician, Asturian, and Spanish cagar.

• Hyphenation: ca‧gar

cagar (first-person singular present cago, first-person singular preterite caguei, past participle cagado)

1. (vulgar, intransitive) to shit; to defecate

   Synonyms: (formal) defecar, arriar o calhau

2. (vulgar, slang, figurative, pronominal) to shit oneself (to be very scared)

   Caguei-me todo na montanha-russa.

   I shat myself on the rollercoaster.

3. (vulgar, slang, figurative, intransitive) to get lucky

   Synonyms: ter sorte, tirar a sorte grande

4. (intransitive, vulgar, figurative) to ignore [with em ‘someone/something’]

   Casgaste completamente para a mensagem que te mandei.

   You completely ignored the message I sent you.

   Ela cagou para mim.

   She didn't give a shit about me.

5. (intransitive, vulgar, figurative) not to give a shit (to really not care) [with para]

   Se ele não quer ir à festa, o problema é dele. Pessoalmente, tou-me a cagar!

   If he doesn't want to go to the party, that's his own problem. Personally, I don't give a shit!

   O stor tá-se a cagar para os novos alunos.

   The prof doesn't give a shit about the new students.

6. (intransitive, vulgar, Brazil) to fuck up; to botch; to screw up; to crap up (to do something incorrectly) [with em]

From Old Irish cocur, cocar (“consultation, (secret) discussion, confabulation; act of consulting, conferring, planning”), from com + cor.

cagar m (genitive singular cagair, plural cagairean)

1. verbal noun of cagair
2. whisper
3. secret

   Synonym: rùn

4. dear, darling

   Trobhad, a chagair. ― Come, dear.

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cocur”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Inherited from Old Spanish cagar, from Latin cacāre, ultimately from a Proto-Indo-European root *kakka-. Compare English cack.

• IPA^(key): /kaˈɡaɾ/ [kaˈɣ̞aɾ]

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ca‧gar

cagar (first-person singular present cago, first-person singular preterite cagué, past participle cagado)

1. (vulgar) to shit

   Synonyms: defecar, (informal) descomer, hacer aguas mayores

   Voy a cagarme ― I am going to shit (myself)

2. (vulgar) to tell someone off, exclamation of rejection

   ¡Anda a cagar! ― Go fuck yourself!

   ¡Vete a cagar! ― Go fuck yourself!

3. (colloquial) to bust
4. (colloquial) to get busted
5. (colloquial) to ruin something; to screw

   ¡Me cagaste la computadora!

   You fucked up my computer!

6. (intransitive, Chile, colloquial) to fail
7. (transitive, Chile) to cheat someone
8. (transitive, Spain, Mexico, colloquial) to make a mistake

   Synonym: equivocarse

   ¡No la cagues! ― Don't ruin it!

9. (reflexive, vulgar) to shit oneself, crap oneself (defecate in one's clothes)
10. (pronominal, vulgar) to shit oneself (be extremely frightened)
11. (pronominal, vulgar) fuck (used to express extreme anger, surprise, joy, shock or to show a lot of disrespect)

• When used to express anger (or even joy, shock, surprise), a common expression is "me cago en la leche", or "me cago en la puta", which can be translated as "fuck this!" or "fuck this shit!" or "holy fuck!". A similar construction can be used when expressing anger or disrespect directed at someone or something, for example ¡Me cago en mi jefe! (Fuck my boss!), ¡Me cago en tu opinión! (Fuck your opinion!) ¡Me cago en todo! (Fuck it all!). In addition, an innumerable number of creative variations can be attested which have the same meaning ¡Me cago en el mar!, ¡Me cago en la mierda!, ¡Me cago en Dios!, ¡Me cago en tu puta madre! etc.

• → Cebuano: kagar

• “cagar”, 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
• “cagar”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010