porcallada

From porcalla (“pig”) +‎ -ada.

• IPA^(key): /pɔɾkaˈʎaða/

porcallada f (plural porcalladas)

1. filth

   Synonym: lixo

   • 1932, Otero Pedrayo, Contos do camiño e da rúa, page 66:

     A moreniña fina, xentil, criada na miseria e na porcallada cun pai zapateiro borrachón, unha nai rifona, vendedora de carqueixas no portal, e un fato de irmáns enlarafuzados, sempre cheos de croques e mancaduras do frío e dos cantazos

     The thin, gentle little brunette, grown up in the misery and the filth of a drunkard father, shoemaker; a grumpy mother, seller of brushwood at the gates; and a bunch of dirty-faced brothers, always covered with bumps and injuries because of cold and pebbles

2. crap

   Synonym: trapallada

3. dirty place or dirty fact

   Synonym: cochada

4. dirty trick, raw deal

   Synonyms: falcatruada, trampa

• porcallán
• porcalleiro

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “porcallada”, 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), “porcallada”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “porcallada”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN