rebillar

• rabillo

Unknown. Perhaps from rabo (“tail”).

• IPA^(key): [reβiˈʎaɾ]

rebillar (first-person singular present rebillo, first-person singular preterite rebillei, past participle rebillado)

1. (intransitive) to kick; to vigorously agitate the legs or tail

   Synonym: espernear

   • 1822, anonymous author, A Parola Polêteca:

     Arriva meu pau das tundas,
     abaixô meu pau tundeiro,
     que logo veremos os libres
     rebillar no colgadeiro.

     up my beatings' club
     down my club of beating,
     soon we'll see them
     shaking legs on the hanger

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “rebillar”, 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), “rebillar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega