escachar

From es- +‎ cacho (“piece, fragment”).

• IPA^(key): /eskaˈt͡ʃaɾ/

escachar (first-person singular present escacho, first-person singular preterite escachei, past participle escachado)

1. (transitive) to tear to pieces; to smash

   Synonyms: esmendrellar, esnacar, esnaquizar

2. (transitive) to smash

   Synonym: esfachar

3. to split one's sides laughing

   Synonym: esmendrellar

   • 2016, Malandromeda (lyrics and music), “Os Calcetíns de Drácula”:

     alguén está comendo os chuletóns todos deste mundo
     e ti escachando coa risa de vexetariana

     someone is eating all the t-bone sticks of this world
     while you split your sides with that vegan laughing

• “escachar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “escachar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012
• “escachar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “escachar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• “escachar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• Hyphenation: es‧ca‧char

escachar (first-person singular present escacho, first-person singular preterite escachei, past participle escachado)

1. (transitive) to separate (the members of the body)
2. (transitive) to open (the legs)
3. (transitive) to break in half
4. (transitive) to crack; cleave

From es- +‎ cachar.

• IPA^(key): /eskaˈt͡ʃaɾ/ [es.kaˈt͡ʃaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: es‧ca‧char

escachar (first-person singular present escacho, first-person singular preterite escaché, past participle escachado)

1. to smash; squash
2. to tear up

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