espeluxar

• espenuxar

From Old French espeluchier (“to peel”) (compare also peluxe (“fuff, fur”)). Cognate with French éplucher.

• IPA^(key): /espeluˈʃaɾ/

espeluxar (first-person singular present espeluxo, first-person singular preterite espeluxei, past participle espeluxado)

1. (transitive) to make (someone's hair) messy; to tousle (someone's hair)

   Synonym: despeitear

2. (pronominal) to make (someone's hair) messy
3. to peel; to lose the skin

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “espeluxar”, 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), “espeluxar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “espeluxar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN