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Portuguese
Etymology
From amarelo (“yellow”) + -ão (augmentative suffix).
Pronunciation
Adjective
amarelão (feminine amarelona, masculine plural amarelões, feminine plural amarelonas)
- Augmentative of amarelo
- (slang) yellow; cowardly (lacking courage)
- Synonyms: covarde, (vulgar) cagão
Noun
amarelão m (plural amarelões, feminine amarelona, feminine plural amarelonas)
- Augmentative of amarelo
- (slang) chicken; coward
- Synonyms: covarde, (vulgar) cagão
Noun
amarelão m (plural amarelões)
- (Portugal) greenfinch
- Synonym: verdilhão
- (Brazil, uncountable, colloquial) ancylostomiasis (hookworm infection)
- Synonyms: ancilostomíase, ancilostomose, necatoríase, opilação
- (Brazil, uncountable, colloquial) jaundice
- Synonyms: icterícia, trisa
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