caroca

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See also: caroça

Galician

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Etymology

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Unknown. Probably from a substrate language and affixed with -oca.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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caroca f (plural carocas)

  1. hollow tree trunk
  2. fraud, lie
    • 1922, Armando Cotarelo Valledor, Trebón:
      ¡Basta, basta! Vosté é sorteira, tía Suíña. Ben sabe que esas meiguerías son carocas que Dios condena. Peca quen as usa, e peca moito máis quen as espende.
      «Stop, stop! You are a sorceress, aunt Suíña. You know well that those witcheries are blatant lies that God condemns. Whoever uses them sins, and sins even more whoever deals them.»

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