mandrião

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Portuguese

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Etymology

From mandriar +‎ -ão.[1]

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /mɐ̃.dɾiˈɐ̃w̃/ , (faster pronunciation) /mɐ̃ˈdɾjɐ̃w̃/
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /mɐ̃.dɾiˈɐ̃w̃/, (faster pronunciation) /mɐ̃ˈdɾjɐ̃w̃/

  • Rhymes: -ɐ̃w̃
  • Hyphenation: man‧dri‧ão

Adjective

mandrião (feminine mandriona, masculine plural mandriões, feminine plural mandrionas)

  1. (colloquial) lazy

Noun

mandrião m (plural mandriões, feminine mandriona, feminine plural mandrionas)

  1. (colloquial) a lazy person
    • 1789, António de Morais Silva, Diccionario da lingua portugueza , volume 2, Lisbon: Officina de Simão Thaddeo Ferreira, page 51, column 2:
      MANDRIÃO, ſ. m. homem ocioſo, deſapplicado.
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    • 2022 December, Aldo Maes dos Anjos, “Gestação de Confusões – Parte V”, in Cartum Interativa‎, number 163, Brusque, archived from the original on 20 December 2022, page 6:
      É pra você carregar tudo, seu mandrião!
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Noun

mandrião m (plural mandriões)

  1. skua (predatory seabird of the family Stercorariidae)
    Synonyms: moleiro, estercorário
  2. gown; (strictly) christening gown
    • 1789, António de Morais Silva, Diccionario da lingua portugueza , volume 2, Lisbon: Officina de Simão Thaddeo Ferreira, page 51, column 2:
      MANDRIÃO, ſ. m. […] Huma roupa até meio corpo larga como os bajús de que agora usão as mulheres por caſa.
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  3. (obsolete, Magic: The Gathering) drone

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ “mandrião”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024

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