Portuguese | English |
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diabo noun {m} | devil [devils](evil creature) fiend [fiends](demon) |
Diabo proper noun {m} | devil(the devil: the chief devil) |
diabo-da-tasmânia noun {m} | Tasmanian devil [Tasmanian devils](Sarcophilus harrisii) |
diabolô noun {m} | diabolo(juggling apparatus) |
diabos preposition | on earth(expletive giving emphasis after interrogative word) |
diabos noun | deuce [deuces](Devil, used in exclamations of confusion or anger) |
diabos adverb | the devil(adds emphasis to a question or statement) |
advogado do diabo noun {m} | devil's advocate(debater) |
arquidiabo noun {m} | archdemon(chief demon) |
falando do diabo phrase | are your ears burning(asked of somebody who was not present but was the topic of discussion) speak of the devil(expression used when a person mentioned in the current conversation happens to arrive) |
figueira-do-diabo noun {f} | jimsonweed(Datura stramonium) |
oficina do diabo. phrase | idle hands are the devil's workshop(One who is idle will likely come to do evil) |
peixe-diabo noun {m} | anglerfish(fish of the bony fish order Lophiiformes) |
pra diabo adjective | fricking(intensifier (euphemism)) |
que diabos? phrase | what the hell(an intensive form of what) |
que porra/diabos/merda phrase | what the fuck(An intensive form of what) |
sapatinho-do-diabo noun {m} | jewbush(low-growing tropical American shrub) |