chiripo

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Macanese

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Apparently from Tamil, Malayalam [script needed] (cherripu), possibly via Malay or Indo-Portuguese.[1]

Noun

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chiripo

  1. clog (a type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole and an open heel)[2]
  2. a pair of clogs

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Batalha, Graciete Nogueira (1988) “chiripo”, in Glossário do dialecto macaense: notas linguísticas, etnográficas e folclóricas [Glossary of the Macanese dialect: linguistic, ethnographic and folkloric notes], Macau: Instituto Cultural de Macau, page 399
  2. ^ https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm#chiripo
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