espreguizar

• esperguizar, espriguizar

Attested since the 19th century. From es- +‎ preguiza (“sloth”) +‎ -ar. Compare Portuguese espreguiçar and Spanish desperezar.

• IPA^(key): [espɾeɣiˈθaɾ], (western) [espɾeɣiˈsaɾ]

espreguizar (first-person singular present espreguizo, first-person singular preterite espreguicei, past participle espreguizado)

1. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to stretch oneself
   • 1862, Manuel Magariños, Ferro-carril Compostelano:

     Os meus Seores traballaron con tan donoso amorío, dempois que se esperguisaron polo tempo mal perdido; tanto afincaron a cousa, con tal xeito e con tal brío; puxeron o chan da terra das malas herbas tan limpo, e tan esgaravellado, tan revirado e espelido, que ao fin veu a semente! ¡ai, qué semente, veciños! Por eso arrigou aa présa sin deixar tempo a un suspiro, aínda ben non lle tocou a semente ao chan moído

     My gentlemen worked with the most jaunty love, after they had stretched themselves because of the wasted time; so much they struggled with the thing, with such expertise and such vigour; they made the ground of the earth so clean of weeds, and so dug up, and so upturned and spongy, that at the end the seed came! And what a seed, my neighbors! That's why it grew hastily, giving no time to a sigh, when the seed had barely touched the milled soil

   Synonyms: espurrir, estricar

• Note: espreguiz- are changed to espreguic- before front vowels (e).

• preguiza

• “espreguizar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “espreguizar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “espreguizar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.