espojar

From es- +‎ pó +‎ -ejar, with ⟨oe⟩ reduced to ⟨o⟩ by crasis.

• Hyphenation: es‧po‧jar

espojar (first-person singular present espojo, first-person singular preterite espojei, past participle espojado)

1. to wallow (to roll in the dirt)
   • 1938, Graciliano Ramos, “Baleia”, in Vidas Seccas [Barren Lives]‎^[1], Rio de Janeiro: Livraria José Olympio Editora, pages 131–132:

     Gostava de espojar-se ali, cobria-se de poeira, evitava as moscas e os mosquitos, e quando se levantava, tinha folhas seccas e gravetos collados ás feridas, era um bicho differente dos outros.

     She liked to wallow there, covering herself with dust, keeping the flies and mosquitoes away, and when she got up, dried leaves and twigs were stuck to her wounds: she’d become an animal unlike the others.

2. (colloquial, by extension) to lie down comfortably and lazily; to sprawl

• “espojar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
• “espojar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “espojar”, in Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisboa: Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, 2001–2026
• “espojar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
• “espojar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026