abouxar

Galician

Unknown. Attested since 1746. Perhaps onomatopoeic;^[1] but compare Latin baubārī (“to bark”) and French aboyer. Alternatively, if related to Spanish abuchear, then from Old French huchier.^[2]

abouxar (first-person singular present abouxo, first-person singular preterite abouxei, past participle abouxado)

(transitive) to pester; to stun; to daze (with a loud sound or through babble)
- 1755, a private letter (Corpus Gondomar 59):
  Meu irmanciño, ai moitos coreos que non lle escribin por nono abougar con tantas cartas
  My little brother, there are some posts that I do not write to you for not pestering you with so many letters
Synonyms: abourar, aturuxar
(transitive) to deafen
Synonyms: axordar, enxordecer
to drive away

Conjugation of abouxar

Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “abouxar”, 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, editor (2006–2013), “abrouxar”, 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), “abouxar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “abouxar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

^ Rivas Quintas, Eligio (2015). Dicionario etimolóxico da lingua galega. Santiago de Compostela: Tórculo. →ISBN, s.v. abouxar.
^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “huchear”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos