gasòfia
Catalan
Etymology
Alteration of earlier basòfia, from Spanish bazofia, from Italian bazzoffia (“vegetable soup”).
Pronunciation
Noun
gasòfia f (plural gasòfies)
- a dish made from leftovers; slops
- (figurative) hodgepodge, mess
- 2018, Màrius Serra, La novel·la de Sant Jordi:
- Sense aquestes tres qualitats, un text és una gasòfia.
- Without these three qualities, a text is a hodgepodge.
Derived terms
Further reading
- “gasòfia”, 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
- “gasòfia” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.