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Galician
Alternative forms
Etymology
From mexericas + -eiro.
Pronunciation
Adjective
mexeriqueiro (feminine mexeriqueira, masculine plural mexeriqueiros, feminine plural mexeriqueiras)
- (archaic) gossipy
- 18th century, anonymous, (folksong):
- Paxaro mixiriqueiro
- heiche de cortar o pico
- porque levas os recados
- adonde está don Benito
- gossipy bird
- I will cut your beak
- because you carry the messages
- to where master Benito is
- whiny
1842, Juan Manuel Pintos, Meu querido pai:D’aqui a poucos días
Que se erguera creo
Pois non è de casta
De mixiriqueiros.- In a few days
she'll get up, I think,
because she's not from the species
of the whiny
- Synonym: choromicas
References
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: me‧xe‧ri‧quei‧ro
Noun
mexeriqueiro m (plural mexeriqueiros, feminine mexeriqueira, feminine plural mexeriqueiras)
- gossip (person who gossips often)
- Synonym: (Brazil) fofoqueiro