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Portuguese
Etymology
From nojo (“disgust”) + -ento.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ẽtu
- Hyphenation: no‧jen‧to
Adjective
nojento (feminine nojenta, masculine plural nojentos, feminine plural nojentas, comparable, comparative mais nojento, superlative o mais nojento or nojentíssimo)
- disgusting; gross
- Synonym: nauseante
2003, J. K. Rowling, Lia Wyler, Harry Potter e a Ordem da Fênix, Rocco, page 46:Olho-Tonto, você sabe que isso é nojento, não sabe?- Mad-Eye, you know that this is disgusting, don't you?
2014, Camila Kintzel, Quebrada em grande estilo: Confissões de uma ex-arrogante e compulsiva por compras, Gutemberg, translation of Bitter is the New Black: Confessions of a Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smartass, Or, Why You Should Never Carry A Prada Bag to the Unemployment Office by Jen Lancaster, published 2006, →ISBN, page 274:— O mercado da esquina era nojento. Tinha gente de pé do lado de fora comendo manga e jogando os caroços no chão.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (figurative, of a person) an arrogant and despicable individual; a smug