Portuguese | English |
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bota noun {f} | boot [boots](heavy shoe that covers part of the leg) |
botadeira noun {f} | layer [layers](hen kept to lay eggs) |
botafogo noun {m} | linstock(staff for lighting cannons) |
botanista noun {m} {f} | botanist [botanists](a person engaged in botany) |
botanizar verb | botanize [botanized, botanizing, botanizes](do the work of a botanist) |
botar verb | lay [laid, laid, laying, lays](to deposit an egg) put [put, put, putting, puts](to place something somewhere) |
botar a boca no trombone verb | blow the whistle(disclose information to the public) |
botar o pé na estrada verb | hit the road(to begin traveling in an automobile or other road vehicle) |
botar um ovo verb | lay an egg(to produce an egg) |
botarr o pé na estrada verb | hit the road(to leave a place; to go away) |
botaréu noun {m} | buttress [buttresses](brick or stone structure built against another structure to support it) |
botas de sete léguas noun {f-Pl} | seven-league boots(boots enabling great stride) |
antissabotagem adjective | antisabotage(preventing or countering sabotage) |
arcobotante noun {m} | flying buttress(buttress that stands apart from the structure that it supports) |
bater as botas verb | buy the farm(to die) give up the ghost(to die) kick the bucket(to die) |
cabotagem noun {f} | cabotage(transport of goods or passengers in the same country) |
cambota noun {f} | crankshaft [crankshafts](rotating shaft that drives a crank) |
colocar/botar/pôr para fora verb | put out(place outside or eject) |
desbotado adjective | lackluster(having no shine or lustre; dull) |
desbotar verb | fade [faded, fading, fades](to lose freshness, brightness) |
embotado adjective | dull [duller, dullest](lacking the ability to cut easily; not sharp) |
embotar verb | abate [abated, abating, abates]((obsolete) to bring down (someone) mentally or physically) |
Gato de Botas proper noun {m} | Puss in Boots(fairy tale) |
lambe-botas noun {m} {f} | brownnose(one who brownnoses) toady [toadies](sycophant flattering others to gain personal advantage) |
lambe-botas noun {m} | sycophant [sycophants](one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person.) yes man(a person who always agrees with his employer or superior) |
Lugar Nenhum; meio do nada; onde Judas perdeu as botas; cu do mundo noun | middle of nowhere(remote place) |
não conte com o ovo antes da galinha botar phrase | don't count your chickens before they're hatched(one should not depend upon a favorable outcome to one's plans until it is certain to occur) |
sabotador noun {m} | saboteur [saboteurs](a person who intentionally causes the destruction of property) |
sabotagem noun {f} | sabotage(deliberate action of subversion, obstruction, disruption, destruction) |
sabotar verb | sabotage [sabotaged, sabotaging, sabotages](deliberate destruction to prevent success) undermine [undermined, undermining, undermines](hinder, sabotage) |
tudo e mais um par de botas noun | everything but the kitchen sink(Almost everything, whether needed or not) |