Portuguese | English |
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do caramba adjective | fricking(intensifier (euphemism)) |
do caramba adjective {m} | goddamn(intensifier) |
encaracolado noun {m} | curly(a person or animal with curly hair) |
encaracolar verb | curl [curled, curling, curls](to make into a curl or spiral) |
encarar verb | affront [affronted, affronting, affronts](to meet defiantly; confront) face [faced, facing, faces](position oneself towards) face up toverb stare [stared, staring, stares](to look fixedly) |
encarar a realidade verb | wake up and smell the coffee(to face reality and stop deluding oneself) |
encarar de frente verb | take the bull by the horns(to deal directly with a matter; to confront a difficulty) |
escada em caracol noun {f} | spiral staircase(type of staircase) |
escancarado adjective | agape(open) gaping(Wide open) |
escancarar verb | gape [gaped, gaping, gapes](to open wide) |
escara noun {f} | bedsore [bedsores](lesion caused by pressure) |
escaramuça noun {f} | skirmish [skirmishes](brief battle between small groups) |
escaramuçador noun {m} | skirmisher(soldier) |
escaramuçar verb | skirmish [skirmished, skirmishing, skirmishes](to engage in a minor battle or dispute) |
escaravelho noun {m} | beetle [beetles](insect) dung beetle [dung beetles](insect of the family Scarabaeidae) scarab [scarabs](Scarabaeus sacer) |
explodir na cara de verb | blow up in one's face(fail disastrously) |
fazer cara feia verb | frown [frowned, frowning, frowns](to have a frown on one's face) |
fazer com a cara e a coragem verb | fly by the seat of one's pants(to improvise a course of action) |
ficar puto da cara verb | shit a brick(To react strongly in anger) |
garça-caranguejeira noun | squacco(Ardeola ralloides) |
jacarandá noun | jacaranda [jacarandas](tree) |
leão de chácara noun {m} | bouncer [bouncers](member of security personnel) |
leão-de-chácara noun {m} | bouncer [bouncers](member of security personnel) |
mas a caravana passa phrase | the dogs bark, but the caravan goes on(life goes on even if some will try to stop progress) |
máscara noun {f} | mask [masks](cover for the face) |
máscara cirúrgica noun {f} | surgical mask(mask worn to catch bacteria) |
máscara de gás noun {f} | gas mask [gas masks](a covering for the face with a filter to protect the user from poisonous gas) |
máscara mortuária noun {f} | death mask(plaster or similar cast) |
mascarada noun {f} | mask [masks](festive entertainment) |
mascarado adjective | masked(wearing a mask or masks) |
mascarão noun {m} | mascaron(carved, ornamental face) |
mascarar verb | masquerade [masqueraded, masquerading, masquerades](to conceal with masks) |
moçárabe noun | Mozarab(Arabic-speaking Iberian Christian) |
moçárabe proper noun {m} | Mozarabic(language) |