chufar

From Old Galician-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 2006–2022.
• “chuf” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “chufar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “chufar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012
• “chufar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “chufar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• “chufar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Vulgar Latin sufilāre, from Latin sibilāre. By surface analysis, chufa +‎ -ar.

• Hyphenation: chu‧far

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

1. (transitive) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
2. (intransitive) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

• “chufar” in iDicionário Aulete.
• “chufar” in Dicionário inFormal.
• “chufar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “chufar” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
• “chufar” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
• “chufar” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

From chuflar. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃuˈfaɾ/ [t͡ʃuˈfaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: chu‧far

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

1. to make fun of
2. (intransitive) to scoff

• “chufar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014