acurrucar

From Latin corrugare (“to wrinkle”).

• IPA^(key): /akuruˈkaɾ/

acurrucar (first-person singular present acurruco, first-person singular preterite acurruqué, past participle acurrucado)

1. (reflexive) to curl up because of the cold
2. (reciprocative) to snuggle

   Los dos se acurrucaron en la cama.

   Both of them snuggled on the bed.

3. (transitive, colloquial, El Salvador) to make somebody squat

   Los acurruqué para que se estuvieran quietos.

   I made them squat so they'd stay there.

   estar acurrucado

   to be squatting

   Estoy acurrucada porque estoy cansada.

   I'm squatting because I'm tired.

4. (reflexive, colloquial, El Salvador) to squat

   Se acurrucó para esperarlo.

   He squatted to wait for him.

• c becomes qu before e.

• acurrucarse

• “acurrucar” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.