Portuguese | English |
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mau adjective | atrocious(frightful, evil, cruel, monstrous) bad [worse, worst](unfavorable; negative) evil(intending to harm) mean(intending to cause harm, successfully or otherwise) wicked [wickeder, wickedest](evil or mischievous) |
mau agouro noun {m} | foreboding [forebodings](evil omen) |
mau contacto noun {m} | loose connection(imperfect connection in electric wiring) |
mau egípcio noun {m} | Egyptian Maunoun |
mau funcionamento noun {m} | malfunction [malfunctions](faulty functioning) |
mau humor noun {m} | hump [humps](bad mood) mood [moods](bad mood) |
mau hálito noun {m} | bad breath(unpleasant breath) |
Mau-Mau proper noun {m-Pl} | Mau Mau(a group of anti-British insurgents in colonial Kenya) |
mau olhado noun {m} | evil eye(wicked look) |
mau perdedor noun | sore loser(one who is easily angered by losing) |
mau pressentimento noun {m} | foreboding [forebodings](sense of evil to come) |
mau tempo noun {m} | weather(unpleasant or destructive atmospheric conditions) |
mauricinho noun {m} | dandy [dandies](man very concerned about his clothes and his appearance) preppy(student of a prep school) |
mauritana noun {f} | Mauritanian(Mauritanian person) |
mauritano adjective | Mauritanianadjective |
mauritano noun {m} | Mauritanian(Mauritanian person) |
Mauritânia proper noun {f} | Mauritania(Islamic Republic of Mauritania) |
Maurícia proper noun | Mauritius(country) |
Maurício proper noun | Maurice(male given name) |
maus lençóis noun {m-Pl} | deep water(difficult or embarrassing situation) |
maus lençóis noun {m} | dire straits(difficult position) |
maus modos noun {m-Pl} | bad manners(treatment of other people in an impolite or discourteous way) |
mausoléu noun {m} | mausoleum [mausolea](large tomb) |
amaurose noun {f} | amaurosis [amauroses](blindness that is accompanied by no obvious change to the eye) |
amaurótico adjective | amaurotic(pertaining to or suffering from amaurosis) |
de mau gosto adjective | distasteful(offensive) tacky(colloquial: in bad taste) |
estar mal-humorado estar de mau humor verb | sulk [sulked, sulking, sulks](to express ill humor or offence by remaining sullenly silent or withdrawn) |
galinhola-vermelha-das-maurícias noun {f} | red rail(bird of extinct Mauritian species) |
galinhola-vermelha-de-maurício noun {f} | red rail(bird of extinct Mauritian species) |
Lobo Mau noun {m} | Big Bad Wolf(fictional evil wolf) |
nada mau adjective {m} | not bad(reasonably good) |
pedaço de mau caminho noun | hunk [hunks](sexually attractive man) |
pilrito de Maur noun {m} | western sandpiper(Calidris mauri) |