Wiktionary:Requested entries (Portuguese)

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Non-letter

• ¿ ? — obsolete question markers
• 1,99 — "cheap, low quality", figuratively "cheap person"
• — — can be used in portuguese simmilar to a quotation mark; is used to mark direct speech or highlight excerpts in texts
• -guaçu - from Old Tupi -gûasu

A

• abelhar
• acerca de, a cerca de, há cerca de
• aferição
• afervorar, afervorizar
• alça-pé
• algirão - the opening of a fishnet (unsure if there is an English equivalent)
• amarelo-claro
• amojar
• anafrodisíaco - requested partly because of The Apothecary Diaries
• ao bom entendedor, meia palavra basta and para quem sabe ler, um pingo é letra
• araque
• arteiro — as in "menino arteiro"
• aspar
• aurélio — in Brazil, genericized trademark for Dicionário Aurélio, meaning "dictionary". Does it pass CFI?
• azideia, asideia
• azoar
• à flor da pele, à flor de

B

• baia — missing computer sense, as in, "o gabinete do meu computador tem 2 baias"
• bandouga — "the guts of a ruminant collectively"
• bastardinho — does this mean, like in Italian, a mutt or mongrel or some slangy name for a dog?
• bazo/dar o bazo (slang) — used when someone is going to leave
• beatilha mentioned at beteela
• Belinha - a female given name?
• belmandil
• bicho-grilo
• bloco de sujo — when the povão is celebrating carnival w/o any sort of formal organization?
• boca louca
• bombacho (article of clothing)
• botar a boca no trombone

  You can say "meter a boca no trombone" and "pôr a boca no trombone" too. Maybe the page should just be 'a boca no trombone'? ...Or should all three be made? MedK1 (talk) 18:00, 11 November 2023 (UTC)

• botar no bolso — “botar no bolso”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
• breguete — "thing, stuff"
• brigaiada

  Looks like an eye dialect version of brigalhada. gritalhada exists as well; perhaps a -lhada page is in order...? Or maybe it's just that one comes from "brigalhar" and the other one from "gritalhar". It's definitely a possibility. MedK1 (talk) 02:34, 7 October 2023 (UTC)

  Dicionário Informal gives '-alho + -ada' in brutalhada. Michaelis says the same about gritalhão and brigalhão. Maybe they came from an adjective rather than a verb? Trooper57 (talk) 19:54, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

  That's possible. Seeing what you said about inFormal, I tried looking for both "brutalho" and "gritalho" on Google. Those and "gritalhar" (esp. "gritalhou") all return few hits. It might be best to trust the dictionary on this. 2804:1B0:1900:E91A:CCFF:4813:211C:1836 22:37, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

• bumba meu boi (Brazil), bumba boi (Brazil), boi-bumbá (Brazil)

C

• caber no bolso — as in, "eu queria comprar aquilo, mas é muito caro, não cabe no meu bolso"
• cair do cavalo
• cair matando
• cair na mão, cair pra mão
• calorear — seems to be a verb in Angola.
• cantarinha (a type of vase or jar)
• careca de saber
• cariocarcinoma

I'm thinking this is a typo for coriocarcinoma (which I just created). Oddly enough though, I can find hits for it in both Portuguese and Spanish. I can't find either forms (co- or ca-) in dictionaries, but "co-" is the one that's on Wikipedia. MedK1 (talk) 19:37, 19 January 2025 (UTC)

• catiguria

  It seems like a sarcastic/informal corruption of categoria. MedK1 (talk) 23:01, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

• chamotim
• chegar a mostarda ao nariz
• cheio de dedos
• chevete
• choromeleiro
• churumela, chorumela
• classe A, classe B, classe C, classe D, classe E

I've seen "classe A" as slang for 'of good quality' — synonym of de primeira — but I haven't seen the others outside SOP. MedK1 (talk) 03:49, 8 November 2024 (UTC)

• cláusula pétrea
• coiteiro
• com a barriga no fogão
• com a faca no pescoço

  comer como uma porca, comer feito uma porca

• com o rei na barriga — usually used in the expression estar com o rei na barriga (= to feel superior, to be arrogant)
• com quantos paus se faz uma canoa
• comanditário
• compadrio
• conselho tutelar
• conversa mole
• correntão — Correntão on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt
• Costa da Mina
• coxão-mole — some cut of meat
• crediário
• cruzeiro novo (Cr$, NCr$), cruzado novo (Cz$, NCz$), cruzeiro real (CR$) — cruzeiro already exists
• cubagem
• cucuia, cucuiada Found in Hobson-Jobson: "A cry of alarm or warning; from Malayalam kūkkuya, to cry out; not used by English, but found among Portuguese writers, who formed cucuyada from the native word, as they did crisada from kris."
• cum caneco

  As far as I know, this is just cum + caneco, with no special meaning. Actually just "with a cup". 189.76.49.87 04:23, 11 April 2021 (UTC)

  Not, this is a interjection of surprise which means ``holy crapǃ´´, ´´gosh´´ equivalent to the Oporto slang ``caragoǃ´´ --2001:8A0:F258:D301:9CBF:2E15:D725:37A2 21:01, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

• cutucar a ferida (Brazil)

D

• da pesada
• dançar conforme a música
• dar as cartas
• dar bode
• dar entrada — to start a (legal, financial, etc.) process
• dar folga para
• dar na telha
• dar pano para mangas
• dar pela coisa
• dar ré no quibe
• dar um passo maior que a perna, dar um passo maior que as pernas
• dar um tempo
• dar uma das suas
• dar uma de alguém
• dar uma de João sem braço
• dar à sola
• dar-se ao luxo
• de arrasta para cima
• de cair o queixo
• de uma figa
• deixar a peteca cair (Brazil)
• deixar no chinelo
• deixar no vácuo — see dar vácuo
• descaminho
• descaracterizar
• descer pelo cano
• descompasso — a common word in Portuguese, related to the word compasso, in the musical context, but also much used in metaphors and things out of a desired rhythm, or similar ideas.
• deslanar
• desnaturalizar — needs Portuguese
• desopilar
• dessarte — dessa maneira, feito desse modo
• dieta da lua
• dízima
• duro na queda

E

• é que são elas

  Seems wrong, people around here all say "aí é que são elas". 187.0.68.70 05:55, 30 June 2020 (UTC) // agreed Vitaoma (talk) 10:01, 18 July 2020 (UTC)

• economia informal
• em boca fechada, não entra mosca
• em briga de marido e mulher, ninguém mete a colher
• empunir
• empurra-empurra jostling crowd or moshpit, part of Brazilian Portuguese reduplication slang
• encalir
• encilhar
• encostar o burro na sombra
• enfiar o pé na lama
• entrar pelo cano
• era para ser — meant to be; probably not an adjective in Portuguese though.
• ERSAR = Entidade Reguladora dos Serviços de Águas e Resíduos
• escambau (Brazil; usually in the expression "é o escambau")
• escaninho
• escola técnica
• escorreita apurada, perfeita, correta
• escrachado
• escreveu, não leu, o pau comeu
• estar bege

  I have no idea what this means, but it's probably best as an entry in bege. There's no page for "estar vermelho" (to be red, like, in the face) and the English translation for this latter term shows up in the article for red, not as its own page. MedK1 (talk) 22:16, 27 August 2022 (UTC)

• estar no mato sem cachorro
• estar para nascer — used to emphasize a negative statement, as in Tá pra nascer a pessoa que vai gritar comigo assim, something like "The person who's going to yell at me like that hasn't been born yet." or "No living person can yell at me like that."
• estar pouco se lixando

  This can be analyzed as a SOP. "Se lixando" can be used as a verb on its own right, and "pouco" can mean "barely" in several contexts, making this item be "to be barely caring" or something along those lines. It's indeed a common sentence and it makes sense for it to be included, but seeing as "mal poder esperar" (or mal posso esperar) isn't included and "estar se lixando" is also common, perhaps there shouldn't be an article for this one. MedK1 (talk) 22:16, 27 August 2022 (UTC)

• estoquear — needs Portuguese
• estrelízia
• estrepar
• estriçar
• estropo
• estrovo
• estultície

  Although dictionaries register both estultice and estultícia as synonyms, they don't register "estultície", though, from what I saw. MedK1 (talk) 00:54, 27 August 2022 (UTC)

• Euthymiou — surname from Greek

Does this pass CFI? MedK1 (talk) 11:02, 14 January 2025 (UTC)

• estréa, estrea — found in pre-1943 Brazilian papers (and sometimes after 1943, evenly distributed with "estréia"). Is it an obsolete form, or just a misspelling?

F

• fadinha — missing clothing sense
• falar grego
• Falsiane
• fazer corpo mole
• femeeiro
• festa de arromba
• ficar para tia, ficar para titia
• filipeta
• fina flor
• folgazão
• fora de série
• fossa séptica, fossa negra, fossa seca, fossa rudimentar
• fundo de garantia
• frangar - needs Portuguese

G

• gratiluz — gratidão + luz. Apparently it's also some sort of internet social movement??

H

• hachurado — see hachura, hachurar
• hiporquema - hyporchema

I

• incelença

  Could this be to excelência what inguinorante is to ignorante? 2804:1B0:1900:9266:79CC:5FEB:7398:8022 12:35, 26 November 2023 (UTC)

• inconho — adjective
• infinitivo pessoal
• inveja branca
• inventar moda
• inzoneiro
• ir de Americanas, ir de Vasco, ir de comes e bebes — They're synonyms of ir de arrasta pra cima, but do they pass CFI?
• ir lá saber — emphatic way of saying 'I don't know'. "—Mas e aí, a resposta era a C mesmo? —Eu vou lá saber kkk!"; way of saying anything can happen "vai lá saber um milagre acontece, né?"

J

• jogo americano — see w:pt:jogo americano
• jogo dos paus
• junteira
• junonal - of or pertaining to Juno
• jeitão

K

• Kovacsics - a surname from Hungarian

L

• lambança
• lepo-lepo sex or sexual prowess, part of Brazilian Portuguese reduplication slang
• letra pegada (“cursive”)
• longarina, cadeira longarina
• lâmpsana, lapsana
• língua-padrão, língua padrão

M

• man — pronounced "mã", synonym of "mano" and "véi" (as in 'bro' or 'dude')
• manda quem pode, obedece quem tem juízo
• marcar presença
• massagear o ego
• mata-cachorro (Brazil)
• mensalão (Brazil)
• merencório
• mesa de som
• meter o focinho onde não é chamado
• mil-réis, mirréis
• missa do galo
• molejo
• mostrar a que veio
• municionar, municiar, municiado
• marado dos cornos
• Maria-louca ("Crazy Mary") = moonshine made in prison from whatever ingredients are available, e.g. beans, rice, candy. May be a Brazilian word.
• mas que porra to go with MQP. supposedly means WTF.
• maçacote
• marchinha
• mocorongo
• metelância, metelança (Brazil, informal)
• mojar — same as amojar

N

• na boa
• na faixa (Brazil)
• na maior
• na medida do possível
• na raça
• na sequência
• nas coxas

  We have feito nas coxas. Protegmatic (talk) 02:36, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

• não saber da missa a metade
• não sei o quê, não sei o quê lá
• não seja por isso!
• não ser flor que se cheire
• não ser lá essas coisas — as in, "ele não é lá essas coisas!", "aquilo não era lá essas coisas!"
• não ter pé nem cabeça
• não trema na linguiça
• não ver a cor do dinheiro
• nhô, nhonhô / nhanhá, ioiô / iaiá — (Brazil, old) affectionate, shortened forms of sinhô (from senhor) and sinhá (from senhora), most commonly used by enslaved black people.
• norma-padrão

O

• ó vida, ó dor, ó sofrência — similar to woe is me; sarcastic. It might be a reference to something.
• o não você já tem — roughly you miss 100% of the shots you don't take, used to encourage someone to make a request they think likely won't be accepted.
• o xis da questão
• obrigadinho, obrigadinha - some forms of 'thank you'
• obteu — nonstandard forms of obteve
• obti — nonstandard forms of obtive
• olhar açucarado — literally, "sugary look/gaze". Possibly coined by Paulo Gustavo, it's Brazilian slang for the stereotypical "sugary" look gay men tend to have.
• onde é que já se viu
• opugnar
• orelha seca
• os melhores perfumes vêm nos menores frascos

P

• palhal, palhar
• para cima e para baixo, pra cima e pra baixo — "ele trabalha muito, está sempre correndo para cima e para baixo"
• Pariz — pre-1911 spelling of Paris
• partir para a ignorância
• parturir — cognate of Italian partorire (“to give birth”), I believe. Mentioned as descendant of Latin parturiō. Emanuele6 (talk) 13:57, 5 April 2025 (UTC)

  I found some online dictionaries that say it is a synonym of parir:

  • https://www.lexico.pt/parturir/
  • https://www.meudicionario.org/dicionarios/lingua-portuguesa/parturir

  Emanuele6 (talk) 14:19, 5 April 2025 (UTC)

• pau de bosta — See filho da puta, asshole
• pegar pesado
• Pelayo — see Spanish payo

  If it exists, it's a borrowing from Latin or Spanish; a duplicate of the inherited Paio. - Sarilho1 (talk) 11:07, 8 April 2023 (UTC)

• pelo sim, pelo não, por bem, por mal
• pelo-sinal
• Penedo — a neighbourhood in Itatiaia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, founded as a Finnish colony.
• perder por esperar — usually used in the negative
• pezorro
• picuinha
• pirar na batatinha
• pissilone
• pitel, pitelzinho
• pitomba — Needs Portuguese; also used as a synonym of "porra" (sense 4), not a swear word though.
• potagem
• pixirica
• pixuruco (or is it pichuruco?) — crazy, goofy
• plush
• polonetas
• pomba-rola
• ponto de fuga
• ponto facultativo
• posta restante
• poucas e boas
• pousadeiro
• pra burro
• pra cá, para cá — as in, "de quatro anos para cá, eu estou nesta profissão"
• pra ontem, para ontem
• prato cheio
• predatismo
• prego que se destaca leva martelada, prego que se destaca é martelado
• preguiçar
• presado — Wikisource em português (related to presador, not “printing” in Esperanto)
• presador — “presador”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• procurar sarna para se coçar

Q

• -q (used in the internet during the 2000s similarly to /s)

  Apparently it's closer to a "don't quote me on that" than a plain "/s". 191.255.100.241 02:50, 18 August 2022 (UTC)

• quatro cantos do mundo
• que dirá (as in Ela não sabe ler, que dirá interpretar um texto.)

  I could've sworn it was "quem dirá". Google proved me wrong. Perhaps it should be a misspelling of the above term? MedK1 (talk) 23:34, 23 September 2023 (UTC)

  I confess I also had to Google this expression, I always heard and said "quem dirá". And yes, I think it is a common nonstandard form. OweOwnAwe (talk) 17:50, 4 October 2023 (UTC)

• quebra-quebra brawl, riot, part of Brazilian Portuguese reduplication slang
• queimadiço
• quem ama a Beltrão, ama a seu cão
• quem mandou?
• quem não deve, não teme
• queridíssimo, superlative degree of querido

R

• rombifólio
• reinação
• reinol — in colonial India: "A term formerly in use among the Portuguese at Goa, and applied apparently to 'Johnny Newcomes' or griffins. It is from reino, 'the Kingdom' (viz. of Portugal). The word was also sometimes used to distinguish the European Portuguese from the country-born. At a later date the word seems to have been applied to Portuguese deserters who took service with the East India Company."
• repouseira
• ressesso — describes bread after it's aged a day or so. "Pão ressesso".
• réu ordinário

  Doesn't seem like an actual expression to me 187.0.68.70 16:40, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

• ripa na xulipa
• revel — see revelia

S

• sabe-se lá
• sarapanel - https://dicionario.priberam.org/sarapanel
• saideira
• sair pela tangente
• são-joaneiro
• saracutiar
• se é que

  Perhaps this got added here because of how "é que" seems to be doing nothing in the sentence? That's kinda how "é que" works in general, though: "O que é que você está fazendo?". Remove the bolded part and the sentence's meaning isn't altered at all. The same thing goes for this: "Se é que podemos realmente dizer isso"; the real 'idiom' bit is "é que", and it's already got an article, é que. I think it's fairly safe to conclude, then, that this is WT:SOP, se + é que. MedK1 (talk) 22:53, 30 August 2022 (UTC)

  Hmmm. Alternatively, maybe it's se é + que, making us need a "se é" entry? You can use that by itself after all, as in "—Ah é? —Ô se é." ...Although, maybe even that is still just se + é. Thoughts? Is this SoP? 2804:1B0:1900:E91A:CCFF:4813:211C:1836 22:46, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

• sebo nas canelas
• sem noção (not SOP, used as a noun/adjective)
• sem rodeios
• senceno

  I was unable to attest this. — Ungoliant ^(falai) 20:39, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

  I've found ‘O alegre e descomprometido riso de uma criança, / perde-se neste senceno pouco romântico / que tão pouco atrai amores trágicos.’ and some dictionary entries. Apparenlty it's a word from Trás-os-Montes meaning ‘fog’ or maybe ‘dense fog’. Regional words are often under-represented on the web.

  Priberam

  Infopédia seems to disagree w/ Priberam: [1] --Jl sg (talk) 17:37, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

• sessar
• sessação
• sigilar
• soltar um barro
• sopa da pedra
• sou mais — as in "sou mais eu", or "sou mais <something>". I don't think you can use it in the third person.
• subliminal — not sure if it really exists. Google (only?) shows usage in online communities about eating disorder... could be from English.
• suedine
• suspeito para falar

T

• tá que tá
• tabacudo
• tabelado — as in: "os preços são tabelados"
• tacar-lhe pau

This might be better in tacar o pau; even though the "-lhe" got popular due to that one meme, it's not really part of the idiom. MedK1 (talk) 05:06, 21 January 2025 (UTC)

• talinho
• tazo, tarzo
• televisão de cachorro (lit."dog's television"; a rotisserie chicken oven)
• tele/telé? (colloquial feminine noun, short for televisão, telemóvel)

I've never seen this. Televisão is TV, telefone is fone and even then that's really only on the side of a building where space's limited and they can't write "telefone". But then again, they said telemóvel. Could using "tele/telé" as a shortening be a Portugal thing? It tracks cause I'm pretty sure you'd expect "telê" here in Brazil. MedK1 (talk) 05:02, 21 January 2025 (UTC)

• ter cara — to look like as in "ele tem cara de trabalhor" (unsure whether SOP or not)
• ter vergonha na cara, tomar vergonha na cara
• teste do pezinho
• tilhas (plural tantrum, colloquial feminine noun, short for sapatilhas)
• tintim por tintim
• tirar o pé da lama
• tirar o pé do acelerador
• toma lá, dá cá
• tona, à tona
• torcida organizada — torcida organizada on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• trabalho de parto
• treineiro
• trincafiar
• tudo em cima

U

• ufanista
• uma andorinha não faz verão

V

• vade retro, vade-retro
• vai por mim
• valha-me Deus!
• veloso
• vencer — informal, "to expire" but used on people to mean that they've started smelling bad (body odor) & need to go take a shower. "Nossa, Fulano, cê já venceu, véi. Vai tomar banho!"
• virado no siri, virado no Jiraiya (most commonly [mis?]spelt as virado no Jiraya) — I believe both of them can mean bravo or arteiro
• veyr (gay slang)
• virar o disco
• véspera de Ano-Novo

  According to Dicio, véspera de Ano Novo and véspera de ano-novo are alright too. 2804:1B0:1900:9266:79CC:5FEB:7398:8022 15:37, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

X

• x-salada, x-burguer, x-tudo with lowercase x.
• xapanã (Brazil)

Z

• zé ruela
• -zoário — suffix used in to vulgarly reffer to biological taxa with names ending in -zoa e.g. Metazoa, metazoário.

Isn't this just <word with zoa> plus -ário? MedK1 (talk) 05:04, 21 January 2025 (UTC)

Word groups

• cumé + quié? (eye dialect, often representing caipira)
• Thesaurus:estúpido — it would be interesting to create a Portuguese equivalent to Thesaurus:jerk to group words like filho da puta, arrombado, corno etc. I've put "estúpido" as a placeholder, but the word must be neuter and don't share a sense with "idiota", that already has a Thesaurus.

  Maybe "Thesaurus:cretino"? 2804:1B0:1903:CDA7:9CBE:1E1D:6376:EE6C 04:08, 22 January 2024 (UTC) Apparently that shares a sense with idiota as well. I'm stumped to say the least. Maybe we should just go with "Thesaurus:filho da puta", straight up. 2804:1B0:1903:CDA7:9CBE:1E1D:6376:EE6C 04:23, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

  I see no rule against bad words. Maybe we should ask at WT:BEER? Trooper57 (talk) 23:44, 22 January 2024 (UTC)