malcabido

Galician

Etymology

From mal (“ill, badly”) +‎ cabido (“fit”). Approximately, ill-fitting.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [malkaˈβべーたiðʊ]

Adjective

malcabido (feminine malcabida, masculine plural malcabidos, feminine plural malcabidas)

1. who bumps on everyone when passing by

   (two persons almost bump into one another) "Olla que somos malcabidos!"

   "Aren't we clumsy/stubborn?"

2. misfit
   • 1895, A. López Ferreiro, A tecedeira de Bonaval, page 170:

     a situación tristísima e máis que lamentábel da súa nai, enferma, sin recursos e, para maor desgracia, de xenio tan atufado, enrenico e mal cabido, que naide se ladaba con ela

     the very sad and lamentable position of her mother, sick, resourceless and, adding insult to injury, having such a haughty, rude and misfit temper, that none got along with her

3. (figurative) stubborn

   Synonym: porfiado

References

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “malcabido”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega