chocar
Meaning
- (transitive) to brood (to keep an egg warm until it hatches)
- (intransitive) to hatch (to break open when a young animal emerges from it)
- (intransitive) to hatch (to emerge from its egg)
- (figuratively, transitive) to hatch (to ponder an idea slowly and deliberately)
- (intransitive, slang) to linger (to spend a long time not moving or doing anything)
- (informal, intransitive) to become foul due to heat
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Pronounced as (IPA)
/ʃoˈka(ʁ)/
Etymology
Inherited from Vulgar Latin *cloccāre, from Latin glocīre, glociāre (“to cluck”).
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