amosegar

• amoregar, amoscar, amoxegar, amozcar, anozcar, moxegar

From a- + Latin morsicāre.^[1] Compare Portuguese mossegar, Spanish moscar.

• IPA^(key): /amoseˈɣaɾ/

amosegar (first-person singular present amosego, first-person singular preterite amoseguei, past participle amosegado)

1. to slightly cut or bite a chestnut before roasting or cooking it
2. to nibble

   Synonyms: adentar, amordicar, ataniscar

3. to pinch

• amósega

• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “amosegado”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “amosegar”, 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), “amosegar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “amosegar”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2025
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “amosegar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN