repenicar

Perhaps a blend of repicar (“to ring; to bite”) with empinar (“to hold up”),[1] or rather with depenicar (“to displume, to pluck”)

• IPA^(key): /repeniˈkaɾ/, /repiniˈkaɾ/

repenicar (first-person singular present repenico, first-person singular preterite repeniquei, past participle repenicado)

1. to ring a bell, in a fast allegro way; similarly, to play an allegro in a drum or tambourine
   • 1814, Manuel Pardo de Andrade, Romance:

     Repinicáde o pandeiro,

     Nenas dos portos de mar;

     Para tocálo Rianxo

     E a Avia para bailar.

     O Miño tempére a gaita,

     Anque marre o brencellau;

     E mais que non quede pinga,

     Xarro tras xarro e brindár.

     Os barrosos e pardiños,

     Xuro a brios, que an de danzar,

     Sin que o estorven as cadrillas

     Dos valentes Roquetaus.

     Ring your tambourine,

     girls from the sea harbors;

     [best] at playing it, Rianxo;

     the land of Avia, at dancing.

     Let the Miño warms the bagpipe,

     even if the good wine is not enough;

     Do not leave a drop,

     pitcher after pitcher and toast.

     Highlanders and lowlanders,

     I sweat they ought to dance,

     no fault on the teams

     of the valiant people of Lemos.

   Synonym: repicar

2. to tap or drum repeatedly
   • 1977, Suso Vaamonde / traditional, Ua! (song):

     este pandeiro que toco

     por moito que repenique

     non teñas medo que rache

     que é de coiro de cacique

     this tambourine I play,

     no matter how much I drum it,

     have no fear, it won't break,

     'cause is made of tyrant skin

3. to engrave (wood), to adorn

   Synonym: gravar

4. to chew
5. to pinch
6. to pound

• Note: repenic- are changed to repeniqu- before front vowels (e).

• repenico

• penico
• repicar

• “repenicar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “repenicar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “repenicar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.