Meaning of toxo | Babel Free

Definitions

1. gorse, furze (Ulex europaeus)
   masculine
2. dwarf gorse, dwarf furze (Ulex minor)
   masculine
3. sourpuss or prickly person
   figuratively, masculine

Equivalents

Examples

“A raíz do toxo verde é moi mala de arrincar; os amoriños primeiros son moi malos de olvidar”

Green gorse stump is so hard to unroot; first love is so hard to forget

“se vsaren cauallgar en el por toios ou por llugares asperos a esto semellauijs, ven o Cauallo vsado a saltar et andar porllos llugares sobreditos, alçara as coixas et os pees mais apostamente pollos outros llugares”

if they happen to ride in [the horse] through gorses or through rough places similar to that, and the horse is used to jump and walk by the aforementioned places, then he will raise the thighs and the feet more handsomely when in other places

“2006, Malandrómeda, Paseo no fume [song]”

I'm a gorse [prickly] but I am [sound] as a box tree

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