chufar

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese chufar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin sufilare, from Latin sibilare (“to whistle”).[1]

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃuˈfaɾ/

chufar (first-person singular present chufo, first-person singular preterite chufei, past participle chufado)

1. (transitive) to flatter

   Synonym: gabar

2. (intransitive) to boast, to brag

   Chufa, carracha, que vas prá sacha!

   Brag, weed, you're going to the hoe!

   (idiom)

   Synonym: alardear

3. (transitive) to scorn

   Synonyms: escarnecer, escarnir

4. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to make fun of, to scoff

   Synonym: burlar

• chufa
• chufador

• “chufar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “chuf” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “chufar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “chufar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “chufar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃuˈfaɾ/
• Hyphenation: chu‧far

chufar (first-person singular present chufo, first-person singular preterite chufé, past participle chufado)

1. to make fun of
2. to scoff

• chufa
• enchufar