arreconchumar

An extremely obscure, dialectal verb not attested in the RAE dictionary or other major reference works, so no fully reliable definition can be confirmed. Its shape (arre- + conchum-) parallels rare regional verbs like conchucharse, suggesting a sense of squeezing or huddling close together, but this is a tentative reading rather than a confirmed one.

• Los niños se arreconchumaron en el rincón para no pasar frío. — The children huddled/squeezed together in the corner to keep warm.
• Se arreconchumó bajo la manta hasta quedarse dormido. — He curled up/burrowed under the blanket until he fell asleep.
• El perro se arreconchumaba junto a la estufa. — The dog huddled up next to the stove.

Treating arreconchumar as standard, dictionary-confirmed vocabulary — it isn't documented in major Spanish dictionaries, so a learner should treat it as a rare regionalism at best and reach for acurrucarse or apretujarse, which are unambiguous and widely understood.

Often confused with acurrucarse.