chosco

Galician

Several etymologies are given:

chosco (feminine chosca, masculine plural choscos, feminine plural choscas)

blind in one eye
Synonyms: breco, cego, torto
one-eyed
Synonyms: breco, torto
weak-eyed
Synonym: pitoño
(informal) nearsighted
- 1334, Miguel Romaní Martínez, editor, La colección diplomática de Santa María de Oseira (1025-1310), volume 3, page 148:
  Domingo Iohannis dito Chosco
  Domingo Anes, also known as Chosco

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

^ Diccionario Xerais da Lingua 1986:265
^ Elixio Rivas Quintas Dicionario Etimolóxico da Lingua Galega 2015:151 s.v. choscar, cf. 2015:149 s.v. chiscar also expressive
^ Gran Dicionario Cumio da Lingua Galega 2004:368, chosco from choscar from chiscar, from chisca or chisco (2004:365)
^ Gran Dicionario Xerais da Lingua 2009:530, s.v. choscar
^ J. Pedro Machado Dicionário Etimológico da Língua Portuguesa, 1952-2003:2:143, s.v. choscar
^ C. Michaëlis, apud Corominas, op. cit.
^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “chusco”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volume II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, pages 413-414 while speaking about the Spanish paronym.

chosco

chosco m (plural choscos)

a cured sausage from Asturias, made from pig intestines, solomillo and spices
Synonym: chosco de Tineo