cagar

From Latin cacāre, present active infinitive of cacō, from a Proto-Indo-European *kakka-.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /kəˈɡa/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /kaˈɡaɾ/
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

cagar (first-person singular present cago, past participle cagat)

1. (intransitive, vulgar) to shit
2. (takes a reflexive pronoun, vulgar) to shit involuntarily, in public, etc.
3. (transitive, vulgar) to shit out

• cagat
• concagar

• “cagar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “cagar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese, from Latin cacāre, present active infinitive of cacō, from a Proto-Indo-European *kakka-.

• IPA^(key): /kaˈɣaɾ/, /kaˈħaɾ/

cagar (first-person singular present cago, first-person singular preterite caguei, past participle cagado)

1. (vulgar, intransitive) to shit
2. (vulgar, intransitive) to tell someone off, exclamation of rejection

   Vai cagar! ― Go shit yourself!

3. (vulgar, transitive) to ruin, to spoil
4. (vulgar, takes a reflexive pronoun) to shit oneself (to be very scared)

• Note: cag- are changed to cagu- before front vowels (e).

• cagalla
• cagallón

• caca

• “cagar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “caga” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “cagar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “cagar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “cagar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Inherited from Malay cagar, from Old Javanese cagĕr (“to guarantee, ensure”), from Proto-Mon-Khmer *gar, *cgar, *cgaar (“to fence, to enclose”).[1]

• The sense of reserve, preserve is semantic loan from Javanese ꦕꦒꦂ (cagar, “preservation”), from the same Old Javanese cagĕr (“to guarantee, ensure”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃa.ɡar/
• Rhymes: -ɡar, -ar, -r
• Hyphenation: ca‧gar

cagar (plural cagar-cagar, first-person possessive cagarku, second-person possessive cagarmu, third-person possessive cagarnya)

1. guarantee, pledge, security
2. advance payment, down payment

   Synonyms: panjar, uang muka

cagar (plural cagar-cagar, first-person possessive cagarku, second-person possessive cagarmu, third-person possessive cagarnya)

1. reserve, preserve

   Synonym: lindungan

• “cagar” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin cacāre, present active infinitive of cacō.

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cagar

1. (vulgar) to shit

From Old Portuguese cagar, from Latin cacāre, from a Proto-Indo-European *kakka-.

cagar (first-person singular present cago, first-person singular preterite caguei, past participle cagado)

1. (vulgar, intransitive, transitive) to shit; to defecate

   Synonyms: (neutral) fazer cocô, (somewhat formal) defecar, (medical) evacuar

2. (vulgar, slang, figurative, intransitive) to get lucky

   Synonyms: ter sorte, tirar a sorte grande

3. (vulgar, slang, figurative, takes a reflexive pronoun) to shit oneself (to be very scared)
4. (vulgar, slang, figurative, with para) not to give a fuck (to really not care)

   Mandei uma mensagem pra ela e ela cagou para mim.

   I sent her a message and she didn't give a fuck.

5. (vulgar, slang, intransitive, or transitive with em) to fuck up; to botch; to screw up (to do something incorrectly)

• cagado

From Old Irish cocur, cocar (“consultation, (secret) discussion, confabulation; act of consulting, conferring, planning”), from com + cor.

cagar m (genitive singular cagair, plural cagairean)

1. verbal noun of cagair
2. whisper
3. secret

   Synonym: rùn

4. dear, darling

   Trobhad, a chagair. ― Come, dear.

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “cocur”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From Old Spanish cagar, from Latin cacāre, present active infinitive of cacō, ultimately from a Proto-Indo-European root *kakka-. Compare English cack.

• IPA^(key): /kaˈɡaɾ/ [kaˈɣ̞aɾ]

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ca‧gar

cagar (first-person singular present cago, first-person singular preterite cagué, past participle cagado)

1. (vulgar) to shit

   Voy a cagarme ― I am going to shit (myself)

   Synonyms: defecar, (informal) descomer, hacer aguas mayores

2. (vulgar) to tell someone off, exclamation of rejection

   ¡Anda a cagar! ― Go shit yourself!

   ¡Vete a cagar! ― Go shit yourself!

3. (colloquial) to bust
4. (colloquial) to get busted
5. (colloquial) to ruin something; to screw
6. (intransitive, Chile, colloquial) to fail
7. (transitive, Chile) to cheat someone
8. (transitive, Spain, Mexico, colloquial) to make a mistake

   ¡No la cagues! ― Don't ruin it!

   Synonym: equivocarse

9. (reflexive) (vulgar) to shit oneself, crap oneself (defecate in one's clothes)
10. (reflexive) (vulgar) to shit oneself (be extremely frightened)
11. (reflexive) (vulgar) fuck (used to express extreme anger, surprise, joy, shock or to show a lot of disrespect)

When used to express anger (or even joy, shock, surprise), a common expression is "me cago en la leche", or "me cago en la puta", which can be translated as "fuck this!" or "fuck this shit!" or "holy fuck!". A similar construction can be used when expressing anger or disrespect directed at someone or something, for example ¡Me cago en mi jefe! (Fuck my boss!), ¡Me cago en tu opinión! (Fuck your opinion!) ¡Me cago en todo! (Fuck it all!). In addition, an innumerable number of creative variations can be attested which have the same meaning ¡Me cago en el mar!, ¡Me cago en la mierda!, ¡Me cago en Dios!, ¡Me cago en tu puta madre! etc.

• → Cebuano: kagar

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