escaguitxar
Catalan
Etymology
Blend of cagar (“to shit”) + esquitxar (“to spray”).
Pronunciation
Verb
escaguitxar (first-person singular present escaguitxo, first-person singular preterite escaguitxí, past participle escaguitxat)
- (colloquial, transitive) to splash, to spatter
- (colloquial, transitive) to cough up, to fork out (money)
- (pronominal) to unravel, to fray
- Synonym: esfilagarsar-se
- (pronominal) to collapse
- Synonym: ensulsiar-se
Conjugation
Conjugation of escaguitxar (first conjugation)
Derived terms
- escaguitxada
- escaguitxament
Further reading
- “escaguitxar”, 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