cucar

From cuco (“cuckoo”) +‎ -ar. First attested in the 18th century.

• IPA^(key): /kuˈkaɾ/ [kuˈkɑɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Hyphenation: cucar

cucar (first-person singular present cuco, first-person singular preterite cuquei, past participle cucado)

1. (intransitive) to cuckoo
2. (transitive) to mock, fool
3. (transitive) to captivate
4. (transitive, eggs) to empty (an egg) by carving two opposite holes on the shell
5. (pronominal) to get fooled

• cuco

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

From cuco +‎ -ar.

cucar (first-person singular present cuco, first-person singular preterite cuquei, past participle cucado)

1. (intransitive) to cuckoo (to make the call of a cuckoo)

   Synonym: cucular

• “cucar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
• “cucar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

From cuco +‎ -ar,

• IPA^(key): /kuˈkaɾ/ [kuˈkaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: cu‧car

cucar (first-person singular present cuco, first-person singular preterite cuqué, past participle cucado)

1. (transitive, colloquial, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Puerto Rico) to provoke (someone)

   Synonym: provoke

• “cucar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
• “cucar”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010