trêbado

Portuguese

Etymology

Blend of três (“three”) +‎ bêbado (“drunk”) or tri- (“tri-, three”) +‎ bêbado (“drunk”).

This is a play on words. It treats the Portuguese word bêbado (“drunk”) as if it started with the prefix bi- (“two”) and changes it to tri- (“three”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtɾe.ba.du/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtɾe.ba.du/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtɾe.ba.do/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈtɾe.bɐ.du/ [ˈtɾe.βɐ.ðu]

Adjective

trêbado (feminine trêbada, masculine plural trêbados, feminine plural trêbadas)

1. (colloquial, uncommon, humorous) very drunk

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:trêbado.

Further reading

• “trêbado”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2024