mossegar

Inherited from Latin morsicāre. Same as in Aragonese mosegar. Compare as well with Spanish moscar (“to hollow out”).

• IPA^(key): (Central) [mu.səˈɣa]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [mo.səˈɣa]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [mo.seˈɣaɾ]

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• Homophone: mossegà
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

mossegar (first-person singular present mossego, first-person singular preterite mosseguí, past participle mossegat); root stress: (Central) /ɛ/; (Valencia) /e/; (Balearic) /ə/

1. (transitive) to bite (seize or cut by clamping the teeth)
2. (figurative, transitive) to run down, to trash
3. (colloquial, transitive) to gouge (make excessive profit off of)

• mossega
• mossegada
• mossegador

• mos (“bite, mouthful”)

• “mossegar”, 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
• “mossegar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “mossegar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “mossegar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• Hyphenation: mos‧se‧gar

mossegar (first-person singular present mossego, first-person singular preterite mosseguei, past participle mossegado)

1. (transitive) alternative form of morsegar