| has gloss | eng: Gacería (translating as "nonsense," "cleverness" from a Basque root ) is the name of a slang or argot employed by the trilleros (or makers of the trillo, or threshing-board, as well as threshing-sledge) and the briqueros (or makers of brica: metathesis of spanish word criba sieve) in the village of Cantalejo, in the Spanish province of Segovia. Gacería incorporated French, Basque and Arabic words into its vocabulary, a linguistic practice employed by other traveling professional groups of Castile. Users of Gacería also incorporated words from Caló (Spanish Romani), Germanic languages and Catalan-Valencian. |
