enxugar

Attested since circa 1300. From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin exsūcāre, present active infinitive of exsūcō. Cognate with Portuguese enxugar and Spanish enjugar.

• IPA^(key): [enʃuˈɣaɾ]

enxugar (first-person singular present enxugo, first-person singular preterite enxuguei, past participle enxugado)

1. (transitive) to wipe dry; to dry
   • 1300, R. Martínez López (ed.), General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV. Oviedo: Publicacións de Archivum, page 89:

     enxugauam aquelas carnes et peyxes ao sol

     they dried those meats and fish in the sun

   • 1460, E. Cal Pardo (ed.), Monasterio de San Salvador de Pedroso en tierras de Trasancos. Colección documental. A Coruña: Deputación Provincial, page 276:

     dita cortinna ias açerca da villa de Ferrol, onde se acustuma de lavar as redes et enxugar

     said garden is near the town of Ferrol, [at the place] where there is customary to wash and dry the nets

   • c1840, Ramón Varela Vahamonde, Conversa entre os arrieiros:

     ¡Pereirolo! ¡Santo Cristo!

     Ese en beber é doutor

     E, metido a opositor,

     Chegaba pronto á arcebispo.

     Co’aquel mirar seu mourisco,

     Zampa en vasos cal en figos,

     Ao lado de catro amigos,

     Axiña enxuga un pelexo

     Pereirolo! Holy Christ!

     He's a doctor of drinking

     and, if he would become a candidate,

     soon he'll be archbishop.

     With these Moorish looks of his,

     he gulps glasses as well as figs,

     together with four friends,

     in no time he dries a skin

   Synonym: secar

• Note: enxug- are changed to enxugu- before front vowels (e).

• enxoito

• “enxugar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “enxug” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “enxugar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “enxugar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “enxugar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin exsūcāre, with a change of prefix. Compare Spanish enjugar.

enxugar (first-person singular present enxugo, first-person singular preterite enxuguei, past participle enxugado, short past participle enxuto)

1. (transitive) to wipe dry
2. to slim down

• suco

• enxuto
• secar