Meaning of acugular | Babel Free

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to overflow; to be packed to the rafters

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“I o home da dita muller operada ponnos por diante un gran acifate acogulado de cachucha, lacón, chourizos, carne de vaca, pan de millo e viño”

And that woman's husband put before us a large tray packed with pork head and shoulder, chorizos, beef, cornbread and wine

“A igrexa achábase acugulada de xente.”

The church was packed to the rafters with people.

“Asín as cousas o tempo fuxía coma un lóstrego e o bon de Bertoliño ó cabo dalgúns anos, cando xa se atopou coa faltriqueira acugulada de douradas e lucias moedas.”

That's the way things are: time was fleeing as a lightning and good Little Bertold, after some years, found himself with the moneybag overflowing with golden and brilliant coins.

“En difrentes sitios da carballeira estaban as pulpeirías cos seus caldeiros cobrizos acugulados de pulpo, postos a ferver riba de grandes fogueiras que envolvían en nubes de fume a feira toda i ameazaban afogar á xente menos á pulpeira que polo visto tiña agallas de tiburón e polo mesmo non lle impidía de rogar ca súa mercancía berrando: «¡Comprádeme o pulpooo...! ¡Ai que rico é, mociños..., ai que rícooo...!»”

At diverse places along the oak grove there were octopus post, with their bronze cauldrons overflowing with octopuses boiling over large bonfires which covered in smoke clouds all the fair, and menaced to choke all of the attendants with the exception of the cook, who apparently had shark gills which allowed her to advertise her merchandise shouting "Buy my octopus...! It's so delicious, boys... so delicious!"

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