gavatx

From a pre-Roman Indo-European root *gaba also found in Gaulish *gauta (“cheek”). Related to French gavache (“coward”), Spanish gabacho (“Pyrenean”).

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gavatx m (plural gavatxos)

1. crop (part of the alimentary track of birds)

   Synonym: pap

gavatx m (plural gavatxos, feminine gavatxa, feminine plural gavatxes)

1. (slang) native of Occitania
2. (derogatory) Frenchman, Frenchie, Frog
3. (dialectal) foreigner

• “gavatx”, 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