fociño

• fucín, fuciño (northeastern Galician, central and western Galician)
• focinho (reintegrationist)

Probably related to Spanish hocico (“snout”) and Asturian focicu (“snout”), ultimately from Latin fodere (“to dig”).^[1] Cognate with Portuguese focinho.

• IPA^(key): [foˈθiɲʊ], (western) [foˈsiɲʊ]

fociño m (plural fociños)

1. snout

   Synonym: morro

2. (figurative) nose
3. (figurative, derogatory) mouth

   Synonym: morro

• meter o fociño

• afociñar
• fociñar

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “fociño”, 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), “fociño”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “fociño”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
• “fociño”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025