guazzare

Italian

Etymology

Possibly borrowed from Old French gaschier, gacher, gasser (“to soil, spoil, waste”) and gaschier, guaschier, waschier (“to wash, soak”), both from Frankish *waskan, *wascōn (“to wash, bathe”), from Proto-Germanic *waskaną (“to wash”), from Proto-Indo-European *wod- (“wet”). Alternatively, from guazzo, guazza.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡwatˈt͡sa.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: guaz‧zà‧re

Verb

guazzàre (first-person singular present guàzzo, first-person singular past historic guazzài, past participle guazzàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (intransitive, Tuscan) to wallow

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