picumã

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Portuguese

Picumã em uma lareira (sense 1)
Picumãs em manequins (sense 5)

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Etymology

Ultimately from Old Tupi apepokumã (soot), presumably via a contracted form.

Pronunciation

Noun

picumã m (plural picumãs) (Brazil)

  1. soot
    Synonym: fuligem
    • 2023 October 3, Jéssica Nascimento, Festas, dramaturgias e teatros negros na cidade de São Paulo: Olaegbékizomba, EDUC – Editora da PUC-SP, →ISBN:
      Quando, durante a pesquisa, perguntamos, ao ao ator Ailton Barros, o que é picumã, ele nos respondeu: "Picumã é fuligem, dessas que saem das brasas com o vento, mas também tem a tradução como cabelo, que é muito utilizada como gíria gay, o pajubá".
      When, during the research, we asked actor Ailton Barros what "picumã" is, he replied: "Picumã is soot, the kind that comes from embers with the wind, but it also translates to hair, which is often used as gay slang, pajubá."
  2. (by extension) spider webs blackened by soot
  3. (colloquial, by extension) frizzy hair
    Synonym: carapinha
  4. (gay slang, by extension) hair
    Synonym: cabelo
  5. (gay slang, by extension) wig
    Synonym: peruca

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