amarelão

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Portuguese

Etymology

From amarelo (“yellow”) +‎ -ão (augmentative suffix).

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: a‧ma‧re‧lão

Adjective

amarelão (feminine amarelona, masculine plural amarelões, feminine plural amarelonas)

  1. Augmentative of amarelo
  2. (Brazil, slang) yellow; cowardly (lacking courage)
    Synonyms: covarde, (vulgar) cagão

Noun

amarelão m (plural amarelões, feminine amarelona, feminine plural amarelonas)

  1. Augmentative of amarelo
  2. (Brazil, slang) chicken; coward
    Synonym: cobarde

Noun

amarelão m (plural amarelões)

  1. (Portugal) greenfinch
    Synonym: verdilhão
  2. (Brazil, uncountable, colloquial) ancylostomiasis (hookworm infection)
    Synonyms: ancilostomíase, ancilostomose, necatoríase, opilação
  3. (Brazil, uncountable, colloquial) jaundice
    Synonyms: icterícia, trisa

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