menear

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• Hyphenation: me‧ne‧ar

menear (first-person singular present meneio, first-person singular preterite meneei, past participle meneado)

1. (transitive) to wiggle, wag, shake
2. (Rio Grande do Sul) to handle or to manage with the hands

   Synonym: manejar

3. (Rio Grande do Sul) to strike or to hit with the hands

   Synonym: golpear

• “menear” in iDicionário Aulete.
• “menear” in Dicionário inFormal.
• “menear” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “menear” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
• “menear” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
• “menear” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

From manear (“(dated) to drive”), with contamination from menar (“to drive livestock”).

• IPA^(key): /meneˈaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: me‧ne‧ar

menear (first-person singular present meneo, first-person singular preterite meneé, past participle meneado)

1. (transitive) to wiggle, to wag, to shake

   Synonym: rabear

2. (transitive) to hobble, to hopple (a horse)
3. (reflexive) to sway, to shake

• “menear”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014