User:Ungoliant MMDCCLXIV

Uncitable Southern Brazilian regionalisms

 * aguento: watery ( + );
 * : (slang) to leave; to depart;
 * bera: beer (maybe from Venetian );
 * bets: an informal street game somewhat similar to cricket (maybe from English );
 * bilidequide: the bee’s knees (from English Billy the Kid, probably from a movie appearance)
 * Buriú: nickname of ;
 * Camorão: nickname of ;
 * carçudão: someone who wears baggy pants; (by extension) a lowlife (from (a rural form of ) +  + );
 * cenzão: one hundred bucks (from +  + );
 * chatóvisco: a killjoy, spoilsport (from + arbitrary suffix (maybe in imitation of Polish surnames ending in -ovski));
 * chimarródromo: a public location for the drinking of (from  + );
 * : an indistinct or unrecognisable colour;
 * cracóvia; krakóvia:, a type of salami made by Ukrainian immigrants in Prudentópolis (from );
 * crêndios padre; crêndios pai; crêndios: an expression of terror, awe or unpleasant surprise (from Spanish );
 * cuim: tailbone, coccyx (from +, or maybe from a Venetian word);
 * : Bumfuck, Egypt (remote place);
 * Curita: nickname of ;
 * de buenas: all right, OK (Hispanicisation of );
 * , : very exciting;
 * : to perform something flawlessly, to break a leg;
 * desverminante: deworming medicine ( + )
 * : to shoot someone up;
 * espirradeira: a sneezing spell (from + );
 * : having a good life, having all one’s basic needs met;
 * : to cause a ruckus, to start a scene, to stir up trouble;
 * frischtick: food taken to an event, such as a fishing trip or a picnic (from Hunsrik, cognate to German );
 * fucão: augmentative of praise of ;
 * gengis khan: a type of grill consisting of a hemispherical metal top full of slits, placed on a base with the burning embers; barbecue prepared using this grill (named after Mongol emperor, but why? I suspect trademark erosion);
 * Gorpa: nickname of ;
 * grácie: thank you (from Venetian );
 * lâ: emphatic form of : very far in that direction; pronounced with a high intonation;
 * : (colloquial, usually used with /) very; extremely; also used in São Paulo state
 * mede-mede: inchworm (reduplication of );
 * !: expression of disapproving or unpleasant surprise (rural pronunciation of );
 * mirde bom; mirde bão; mirde: used as an answer to greetings equivalent to ?, and to express gladness with the outcome of a deal (rural pronunciation of  );
 * monguear-se: to behave in a retarded manner (from + );
 * : to prepare a  of maté;
 * : used to sarcastically imply that someone’s denial is a lie;
 * : almost out of resources or material; running on fumes;
 * Parágua: nickname of ;
 * : of poor or low quality (a reference to counterfeit goods imported from Paraguay by sacoleiros);
 * perpreto: nonstandard form of ;
 * : synonym of ;
 * poquetim: a tad; a little bit (from Venetian );
 * : Brazilians from outside the South are fundamentally different from Southerners; this proverb doesn’t have a fixed form, this is just an example; also it generally has pejorative connotations;
 * Prud: nickname of ;
 * : someone who has forgotten something is responsible for walking back and getting/doing it; those who face a challenge and are unable to come up with an intelligence solution must solve it through hard work instead (possibly a calque of Venetian );
 * : (humorous) bless you, gesundheit;
 * serpelo: whopper (something remarkably large);
 * tchuca, porco!: used to criticise someone for burping;
 * tchuco: tipsy, slightly drunk;
 * tchutcho: pacifier (from Venetian );
 * ; tomar nos corno: euphemism of ; also used in São Paulo state
 * tongo: a foolish person; foolish (maybe from Rioplatense Spanish);
 * tonguice: foolishness; a foolish act (tongo + );
 * tonguear: to act foolishly (tongo + );
 * : chopping board;
 * tristonhoco: down, depressed ( + );
 * tush-tush: degogatory term for electronic dance music (onomatopoeia);
 * vetcho, -a: old person; grandfather; elderly (from Venetian );
 * viadarada: (degoratory) a bunch of homosexuals ( + );
 * vina: hot dog sausage (from German );
 * : either of two neighbours whose property borders the other at the back.

Projects

 * Giving Portuguese tbot entries proper entries. I always try to make the entries as complete as possible.
 * (5 May 2011) Began


 * (6 June 2011) Finished words starting with A.
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 * (7 February 2012) Finished words starting with C.
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 * (18 February 2012) Finished words starting with E.
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 * (28 July 2012) Finished words starting with X.
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 * (31 July 2012) Finished words starting with Á.
 * (31 July 2012) Finished words starting with Â.
 * (31 July 2012) Finished words starting with É.
 * (31 July 2012) Finished words starting with Í.
 * (31 July 2012) Finished words starting with Ó.


 * (31 July 2012) Finished.


 * Languages:
 * Portuguese, Old Portuguese, Fala, Emilian, Romagnol, Hunsrik, Ligurian, Mòcheno, Kaingang, Cimbrian and Istriot.


 * Maintaining Requested entries (Portuguese)


 * Maintaining Category:Portuguese terms needing attention
 * (5 August 2012) emptied it.


 * Expanding Portuguese entries per frequency:
 * Began: 11 August 2012.
 * 100 most common: 15 March 2013.
 * 200 most common: 13 April 2013.
 * On hold.


 * Clearing Category:Translations to be checked (Portuguese):
 * (26 November 2014) Began.
 * (2 December 2014) 500 left.
 * (4 December 2014) 250 left.
 * (6 December 2014) Done.


 * Have Portuguese beat Spanish in number of gloss definitions:
 * (11 March 2014) 17317 definitions behind.


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 * (28 August 2015) 128 definitions ahead.


 * Spanish and many other languages have surpassed Portuguese since then, but stay tuned.


 * Go through Category:English lemmas and add Portuguese translations:
 * Began: 27 December 2014;
 * Aa: 27 December 2014;
 * Ab: 28 December 2014;
 * Ac: 31 January 2015;
 * Ad: 3 February 2015;
 * Ae: 8 February 2015;
 * Af: 10 February 2015;
 * Ag: 15 February 2015;
 * Ah: 15 February 2015;
 * Ai: 17 February 2015;
 * Aj: 17 February 2015;
 * Ak: 17 February 2015;
 * Al: 17 June 2015;
 * Am: 29 June 2015;
 * An: 6 August 2015 (you won’t believe how many words use the prefix );
 * Ao: 6 August 2015;
 * Ap: 10 August 2015;
 * Aq: 10 August 2015;
 * Ar: 21 August 2015.


 * On hold.


 * Go through Peregrinaçam and add the obsolete spellings:
 * Chapter I: 18 July 2015;
 * Chapter II: 19 July 2015;
 * Chapter III: 1 August 2015;
 * Chapter IV: 3 August 2015;
 * Chapter V: 3 August 2015;
 * Chapter VI: 4 August 2015;
 * Chapter VII: 6 August 2015;
 * Chapter VIII: 6 August 2015.


 * On hold.


 * Have Portuguese beat Finnish in number of translation lines:
 * (2 July 2015) 22559 translations behind;
 * (8 August 2015) 19449 translations behind;
 * (28 August 2015) 16919 translations behind;
 * (2 October 2015) 16710 translations behind.


 * On hold.


 * Have Portuguese beat Spanish in number of listed doublets: (I believe they have a similar number of doublets overall; it’s just a matter of getting the info on the pages)
 * (26 January 2021) 368 behind
 * (30 January 2021) 341 behind
 * (08 February 2021) 285 behind
 * (12 March 2022) 186 behind


 * Maintaining WT:FWOTD


 * Maintaining WT:STATS

Subpages
Educational material: Wordlists: Requested entries and content: Fun: Other:
 * Annotated texts for beginner Portuguese learners.
 * Portuguese words by frequency;
 * Words in the Fala language;
 * Portuguese words of Germanic origin (moved from appendix; mostly rubbish);
 * Odd pronunciations found in media that are potential variants that could be added to our entries.
 * Ufology terms to be added;
 * Heavy Metal terms to be added;
 * Missing translations per priority;
 * Translations of water;
 * Missing links to alternative form entries.
 * Related terms.
 * Distinctions not made in English or Portuguese;
 * Words which are examples of themselves;
 * (Pseudo-)archaic Main Page;
 * Age of Empires II glossary.
 * Age of Empires II glossary.
 * All language headings (for testing flags);
 * Translation statistics.