coger

coger (plural cogers)

1. Obsolete form of codger.
   • 1851, Carpet-bag: A Literary Journal, volume 1:

     Well, thought her parents and the neighbors, the old coger is going to do the handsome thing for little Sally, perhaps when she gets married, in the shape of a nice fit-out; he may give her a snug little cottage, who knows […]

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

• Crego, Greco-, Groce, gorce

• cojer (have sex, Mexico, Venezuela, Argentina)

Inherited from Latin colligere (“to collect, to gather”). Cognate with Portuguese colher, French cueillir, Sicilian cògghiri, and also with English cull, coil, college, and collect. Compare also the borrowed doublet colegir.

Not related to Latin cōgere, coagere (“to assemble”).

• IPA^(key): /koˈxeɾ/ [koˈxeɾ]

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• Rhymes: -eɾ
• Syllabification: co‧ger

coger (first-person singular present cojo, first-person singular preterite cogí, past participle cogido)

1. to take, catch, hold, to get, to seize

   Synonyms: agarrarse, tomar, prender, asir

2. to pick, harvest

   Synonyms: cosechar, recolectar

3. to fish

   Synonyms: pescar, atrapar

4. to seize, arrest; to overtake

   Synonyms: atrapar, aprehender, capturar

5. to get (a joke)
6. to collect

   Synonym: colectar

7. (vulgar, Latin America) to have sex, to fuck, to bang

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:joder

8. (Spain) to imitate, learn
9. (Spain) to choose (a direction, route, when driving or walking)
10. (Spain) to turn to (when driving or walking)

    Synonym: dar vuelta

11. (Spain) to board (means of transportation)

    Tengo que coger el tren.

    I have a train to catch.

Because of the vulgar association, coger is best avoided in Latin America. Alternatives include recoger, agarrar, or tomar, depending on the context.

• “coger”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010
• “coger”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

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