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aguento

watery (água + -ento);

armar capa

(slang) to leave; to depart;

bera

beer (maybe from Venetian bira);

bets

an informal street game somewhat similar to cricket (maybe from English bats);

bilidequide

the bee’s knees (from English Billy the Kid, probably from a movie appearance)

Buriú

nickname of Balneário Camboriú;

Camorão

nickname of Campo Mourão;

carçudão

someone who wears baggy pants; (by extension) a lowlife (from carça (a rural form of calça) + -udo + -ão);

cenzão

one hundred bucks (from cem + -z- + -ão);

chatóvisco

a killjoy, spoilsport (from chato + arbitrary suffix (maybe in imitation of Polish surnames ending in -ovski));

chimarródromo

a public location for the drinking of chimarrão (from chimarrão + -ódromo);

cor de vão de cerca

an indistinct or unrecognisable colour;

cracóvia; krakóvia

Krakauer, a type of salami made by Ukrainian immigrants in Prudentópolis (from Cracóvia (“Krakow”));

crêndios padre; crêndios pai; crêndios

an expression of terror, awe or unpleasant surprise (from Spanish cree en dios, padre);

cuim

tailbone, coccyx (from cu + -im, or maybe from a Venetian word);

Cunhepe do Judas

Bumfuck, Egypt (remote place);

Curita

nickname of Curitiba;

de buenas

all right, OK (Hispanicisation of de boa);

de saltar os butiá dos bolso, de pular os butiá dos bolso

very exciting;

desossar

to perform something flawlessly, to break a leg;

desverminante

deworming medicine (desverminar + -ante)

erguer no tiro

to shoot someone up;

espirradeira

a sneezing spell (from espirrar (“to sneeze”) + -deira);

faceiro e gordo

having a good life, having all one’s basic needs met;

ferver o Ki-Suco

to cause a ruckus, to start a scene, to stir up trouble;

frischtick

food taken to an event, such as a fishing trip or a picnic (from Hunsrik friixtik, cognate to German Frühstück);

fucão

augmentative of praise of fusca;

gengis khan

a type of grill consisting of a hemispherical metal top full of slits, placed on a base with the burning embers; barbecue prepared using this grill (named after Mongol emperor Gengis Khan, but why? I suspect trademark erosion);

Gorpa

nickname of Guarapuava;

grácie

thank you (from Venetian grassie);

lâ

emphatic form of lá: very far in that direction; pronounced with a high intonation;

louco de

(colloquial, usually used with bom/bão) very; extremely; also used in São Paulo state

mede-mede

inchworm (reduplication of mede (“measures”));

minhas arma!

expression of disapproving or unpleasant surprise (rural pronunciation of minhas almas);

mirde bom; mirde bão; mirde

used as an answer to greetings equivalent to how are you?, and to express gladness with the outcome of a deal (rural pronunciation of mil (“thousand”) de (“of”) bom (“good”));

monguear-se

to behave in a retarded manner (from mongo (“mongoloid”) + -ear);

montar

to prepare a cuia of maté;

nem os padres de Pitanga

used to sarcastically imply that someone’s denial is a lie;

no pau da viola

almost out of resources or material; running on fumes;

Parágua

nickname of Paraguai;

paraguaio

of poor or low quality (a reference to counterfeit goods imported from Paraguay by sacoleiros);

perpreto

nonstandard form of perplexo;

piá de apartamento

synonym of piá de prédio;

poquetim

a tad; a little bit (from Venetian pochetin);

pra lá do Paraná é tudo baiano

Brazilians from outside the South are fundamentally different from Southerners; this proverb doesn’t have a fixed form, this is just an example; also it generally has pejorative connotations;

Prud

nickname of Prudentópolis;

quem não tem cabeça, tem perna

someone who has forgotten something is responsible for walking back and getting/doing it; those who face a challenge and are unable to come up with an intelligence solution must solve it through hard work instead (possibly a calque of Venetian chi no ga testa ga gambe);

saúde, se não for peste

(humorous) bless you, gesundheit;

serpelo

whopper (something remarkably large);

tchuca, porco!

used to criticise someone for burping;

tchuco

tipsy, slightly drunk;

tchutcho

pacifier (from Venetian ciucio);

tomar nos cornos; tomar nos corno

euphemism of tomar no cu; also used in São Paulo state

tongo

a foolish person; foolish (maybe from Rioplatense Spanish);

tonguice

foolishness; a foolish act (tongo + -ice);

tonguear

to act foolishly (tongo + -ear);

tabuleiro

chopping board;

tristonhoco

down, depressed (tristonho + -oco);

tush-tush

degogatory term for electronic dance music (onomatopoeia);

vetcho, -a

old person; grandfather; elderly (from Venetian vecio);

viadarada

(degoratory) a bunch of homosexuals (viado + -arada);

vina

hot dog sausage (from German Wiener);

vizinho de bunda

either of two neighbours whose property borders the other at the back.

• Giving Portuguese tbot entries proper entries. I always try to make the entries as complete as possible.

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• Have Portuguese beat Spanish in number of gloss definitions:

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• Spanish and many other languages have surpassed Portuguese since then, but stay tuned.

• Go through Category:English lemmas and add Portuguese translations:

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• Ah: 15 February 2015;
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• Aj: 17 February 2015;
• Ak: 17 February 2015;
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• An: 6 August 2015 (you won’t believe how many words use the prefix anti-);
• Ao: 6 August 2015;
• Ap: 10 August 2015;
• Aq: 10 August 2015;
• Ar: 21 August 2015.

• On hold.

• Go through Peregrinaçam and add the obsolete spellings:

• Chapter I: 18 July 2015;
• Chapter II: 19 July 2015;
• Chapter III: 1 August 2015;
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• Chapter V: 3 August 2015;
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• Chapter VII: 6 August 2015;
• Chapter VIII: 6 August 2015.

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• Have Portuguese beat Finnish in number of translation lines:

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• (28 August 2015) 16919 translations behind;
• (2 October 2015) 16710 translations behind.

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• Have Portuguese beat Spanish in number of listed doublets: (I believe they have a similar number of doublets overall; it’s just a matter of getting the info on the pages)

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Educational material:

• Annotated texts for beginner Portuguese learners.

Wordlists:

• Portuguese words by frequency;
• Words in the Fala language;
• Portuguese words of Germanic origin (moved from appendix; mostly rubbish);
• Odd pronunciations found in media that are potential variants that could be added to our entries.

Requested entries and content:

• Ufology terms to be added;
• Heavy Metal terms to be added;
• Missing translations per priority;
• Translations of water;
• Missing links to alternative form entries.
• Related terms.

Fun:

• Distinctions not made in English or Portuguese;
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