retrucar

• retucar (Parres, Llanes)
• arretrucar

re- +‎ trucar

• IPA^(key): /retɾuˈkaɾ/ [re.t̪ɾuˈkaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: re‧tru‧car

retrucar

1. to answer, reply, retort, rejoin (unrespectfully)
2. to complain, grump

• “retrucar”, in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana [Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Asturian), 1ª edición, Academia de la Llingua Asturiana, 2000, →ISBN
• Xosé Lluis García Arias (2002–2004), “retrucar”, in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana [General Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Spanish), Editorial Prensa Asturiana, →ISBN

From re- +‎ trucar.

• IPA^(key): /retɾuˈkaɾ/

retrucar (first-person singular present retruco, first-person singular preterite retruquei, past participle retrucado)

1. to retort, reply

• trucar

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “retrucar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “retrucar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “retrucar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

From re- +‎ trucar, which is from truque, borrowed from English truck.

• Hyphenation: re‧tru‧car

retrucar (first-person singular present retruco, first-person singular preterite retruquei, past participle retrucado)

1. to retort, reply

For quotations using this term, see Citations:retrucar.

• “retrucar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “retrucar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

• IPA^(key): /retɾuˈkaɾ/ [re.t̪ɾuˈkaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: re‧tru‧car

retrucar (first-person singular present retruco, first-person singular preterite retruqué, past participle retrucado)

1. to retort

• “retrucar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025