coice

Latin

Verb

coice

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of coiciō

Portuguese

FWOTD – 13 January 2020

Alternative forms

  • couce (dated or dialectal)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese couce m (compare Galician couce m), from Latin calcem f (“heel”). Cognate with Spanish coz f.

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈkoj.si/ [ˈkoɪ̯.si]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈkoj.se/ [ˈkoɪ̯.se]

Noun

coice m (plural coices)

  1. a kick from a quadruped such as a horse, donkey or camel
    • 2011, chapter 36, in Jorge Nuno Silva, transl., 50 Ideias de Matemática que precisa mesmo de saber, Alfragide: Dom Quixote, translation of 50 mathematical ideas you really need to know by Tony Crilly, →ISBN, page 136:
      Quais são as probabilidades de x cavaleiros num ano receberem um coice fatal de um cavalo?
      [original: What are the probabilities of x cavalrymen in a year receiving a lethal kick from a horse?]
  2. a strong kick with the sole or back of the foot
    • 1966, Affonso Henriques, Ascensão e queda de Getúlio Vargas, volume 3, Rio de Janeiro: Distribuidora Record, page 303:
      Sr. Otacílio Lopes, redator-chefe de um matutino de Salvador, recebeu um coice no peito, desferido por um dos capangas de Vargas, […]
      Mr. Otacílio Lopes, editor-in-chief of a morning paper in Salvador, was kicked in the chest by one of Vargas’s lackeys, […]
  3. (firearms) recoil (pushback from a fired firearm)
    Synonym: recuo
    • 2013, Magda Lopes, transl., Mazer Runne: Ordem de Extermínio, São Paulo: Vergara & Riba Editoras, translation of The Kill Order by James Dashner, page 27:
      As mãos saltaram com o coice da arma, mas ele avistou uma névoa vermelha, um esguicho de sangue no ar; […]
      [original: His hands jumped with the recoil, but he saw the red mist, spray of blood in the air; […]]
      The hands jumped with the recoil, but he sighted a red mist, a squirt of blood in the air; […]
  4. (figurative) a curt, rude response; a snap
    Synonym: patada
    • 2000, John W. F. Dulles, Carlos Lacerda: a vida de um lutador, Rio de Janeiro: Editora Nova Fronteira, page 353:
      Lacerda reclamou que, em lugar de resposta ao seu estudo de 54 páginas, recebera um coice.
      Lacerda complained that, instead of a response to his 54 page study, he was met with a snap.

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