sapatão
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Portuguese
Etymology
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɐ̃w̃
- Hyphenation: sa‧pa‧tão
Noun
sapatão m (plural sapatões)
- Augmentative of sapato
- (Brazil, slang, LGBTQ, sometimes derogatory) lesbian woman; butch, dyke
- 1989, 50:16 from the start, in Ivan Reitman, director, Os Caça-Fantasmas 2 [Ghostbusters II], São Paulo: BKS:
- Egon Spengler (Jorge Barcellos): Não, de fato não era muito popular. Também conhecido como Vigo, o Cruel, Vigo, o Torturador, Vigo, o Desprezado, Vigo, o Infiel.
Peter Venkman (Ézio Ramos): Ele não foi também Vigo, o Sapatão?- Egon Spengler (Harold Ramis): Not exaclty a man of the people. Also know as Vigo the Cruel, Vigo the Torturer, Vigo the Despized, and Vigo the Unholy.
Peter Venkman (Bill Murray): Wasn't he also Vigo the Butch?
- Egon Spengler (Harold Ramis): Not exaclty a man of the people. Also know as Vigo the Cruel, Vigo the Torturer, Vigo the Despized, and Vigo the Unholy.
Derived terms
Further reading
- “sapatão”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024