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Portuguese
Noun
bicho do mato m (plural bichos do mato)
- loner
- Synonym: solitário
(Can we date this quote?), Lima Barreto, “O destino da literatura”, in Marginália, published 1953:Afinal, este gênero de literatura e uma arte de sociedade, - que fica um pouco acima do jogo de prendas e muito abaixo de um step qualquer; e eu, apesar de ser um sujeito sociável e que passo, das vinte e quatro horas do dia, mais de quatorze na rua, conversando com pessoas de todas as condições e classes, nunca fui homem de sociedade: sou um bicho-do-mato.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- unsociable person
- Synonym: urso
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