esfolar

  1. (transitive) to flay
  2. (pronominal) to scrape (to injure by scraping)

Frequency

29k
Pronounced as (IPA)
/is.foˈla(ʁ)/
Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese esfolar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin *exfollāre. By surface analysis, es- (“ex-”) + fol (“hide, skin, bag”) + -ar.

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