bicho-preguiça

Portuguese

Etymology

From bicho (“beast, animal”) +‎ preguiça (“sloth, laziness”).

Noun

bicho-preguiça m (plural bichos-preguiça)

  1. sloth (any animal in the suborder Folivora)
    Synonyms: preguiça, aí
    • 2012 January 31, Gabriela Lima, “Bicho-preguiça é capturado após fugir de mata do Zoológico de Goiânia”, in TV Anhanguera‎[1], Goiânia: g1, archived from the original on 2 June 2012:
      O Corpo de Bombeiros resgatou, na tarde desta terça-feira (31), um bicho-preguiça que havia fugido da mata do Zoológico de Goiânia, no Setor Oeste. O animal estava na fiação, em frente à entrada de funcionários do parque.
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Usage notes

The gender of this Portuguese zoonym is always masculine: when the gender of the being itself must be specified, bicho-preguiça-macho for male and bicho-preguiça-fêmea for female. Here, fêmea is treated as an undeclinable noun and doesn't necessarily need to agree in gender with the referent, but would change to fêmeo if so.

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