boceta
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- buceta (pronunciation spelling)
Etymology
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese buxeta, from Vulgar Latin *buxita, from Late Latin buxis, borrowed from Ancient Greek πυξίς (puxís), from πῠ́ξος (pŭ́xos) + -ις (-is). Doublet of boate and bússola. For the semantic development, compare English box (“vagina”).
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /buˈse.tɐ/, (dated) /boˈse.tɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /buˈse.ta/, (dated) /boˈse.ta/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /buˈse.tɐ/
- Rhymes: -etɐ
- Hyphenation: bo‧ce‧ta
Noun
boceta f (plural bocetas)
- (Brazil, vulgar) pussy; the female sexual organs
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vagina
- (Brazil, vulgar) shit (indicating something useless or annoying)
- (archaic) box
- Synonym: caixinha
- boceta de Pandora ― Pandora's box
- 1871 December 1, “A República e os Estudantes [The República and the Students]”, in Questões do dia[1], number 23, Rio de Janeiro, page 4:
- Não nos faremos cargo de demonstrar a justiça, legalidade e exequibilidade do decreto de 22 de outubro,—nova bocêta de Pandora, a que os pessimistas do dia attribuem o inxame de males […]
- We shall not undertake to demonstrate the justice, legality, and feasibility of the decree of October 22—a new Pandora's box to which today’s pessimists attribute the swarm of evils […]
- 1960 September 9, “O fim do Conselheiro [The Counselor’s end]”, in Jornal do Commercio, volume 133, number 288, Rio de Janeiro, page 6:
- Afinal, cheia dêle uma boceta de sândalo, preparou a velha almofada, pondo-lhe tela nova […]
- And so, having filled a small sandalwood box with it [linen], he prepared the old cushion […]
Interjection
boceta!
Further reading
- “boceta”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “boceta”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
Spanish
Verb
boceta
- inflection of bocetar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative