gavatx

== Catalan == === Etymology === From a pre-Roman Indo-European root *gaba also found in Gaulish *gauta (“cheek”). Related to French gavache (“coward”), Spanish gabacho (“Pyrenean”). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. Particularly: “From Occitan gavach (“bird’s crop, goitre, swelling; mountain-dweller, northerner, peasant”)?” === Noun === gavatx m (plural gavatxos) crop (part of the alimentary track of birds) Synonym: pap === Noun === gavatx m (plural gavatxos, feminine gavatxa, feminine plural gavatxes) (slang) native of Occitania (derogatory) Frenchman, Frenchie, Frog (dialectal) foreigner === Further reading === “gavatx”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007