gossô

Macanese

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay gosok,^[1] from Proto-Malayic *kusuk.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɡɔˈsɔ/

Verb

gossô

to sweep, to mop
gossô chám ― to sweep the floor
to scrub, to buff, to polish

Derived terms

gossodela (“mop; wipe”)

References

^ Batalha, Graciete Nogueira (1988) “gossô”, in Glossário do dialecto macaense: notas linguísticas, etnográficas e folclóricas [Glossary of the Macanese dialect: linguistic, ethnographic and folkloric notes], Macau: Instituto Cultural de Macau, page 44

Further reading

https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm

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