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  2. Portuguese profanity - Wikipedia

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    "Cabrão" male-only term used for men who have cheated. [3]"Caralho" (IU) is a swear word for penis and can be used as an interjection.One possible folk etymology relates it to a ship's crow's nest, and the negative connotation from the expression "vai para o caralho", meaning "go to the crow's nest", because of the heavy rocking of ships in the high sea.

  3. Portuguese vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    Projections on Celtic vocabulary (some words may have come via French borrowings starting in the 12th century), toponyms and derivations in Portuguese, indicate over 3,000 words. [11] The Celtic substratum is often overlooked, [ 12 ] due to the strong Latinisation of Celtic-derived [ 13 ] words in Portuguese and the ancient linguistic threads ...

  4. Talk:Portuguese profanity - Wikipedia

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    The term its used because in a academic context the term Latin America doesn't help that much, too broad of a term that ignores the huge cultural differences in history and culture between hispanic and portuguese america.

  5. Caralho - Wikipedia

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    Caralho written in graffiti in Lisbon. Caralho (Portuguese: [kɐˈɾaʎu]) is a vulgar Portuguese-language word with a variety of meanings and uses. Literally, it is a noun referring to the penis, similar to English dick, but it is also used as an interjection expressing surprise, admiration, or dismay in both negative and positive senses in the same way as fuck in English.

  6. Detroit Slang - AOL

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    Detroit slang is an ever-evolving dictionary of words and phrases with roots in regional Michigan, the Motown music scene, African-American communities and drug culture, among others. The local ...

  7. Category:Lists of slang - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Lists of slang" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.

  8. Pimba - Wikipedia

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    Emanuel, an icon of the pimba music scene.. Pimba [1] is an umbrella term for Portuguese types or genres of music with an uptempo style and/or folk song features, corny romantic or saucy and vulgar lyrics, which was often associated with poorly educated public from rural areas and suburban poor or working-class neighbourhoods, as well as with Portuguese economic migrants living abroad who ...

  9. List of English words of Portuguese origin - Wikipedia

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    From mula (=mule) a cross between a horse and a donkey or from the Arabic term muwallad, which means "a person of mixed ancestry" Negro Negro means "black" in Spanish and Portuguese being from the Latin word niger (Dative nigro, Accusative nigrum) and the Greek word Νέγρος Negros both of the same meaning. It came to English through the ...