carapuça

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish carapuza.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ka.ɾaˈpu.sɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ka.ɾaˈpu.sa/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐ.ɾɐˈpu.sɐ/

Rhymes: -usɐ
Hyphenation: ca‧ra‧pu‧ça

Noun

carapuça f (plural carapuças)

a flexible, conical cap
(figuratively) indirect censorship

Derived terms

carapuço
enfiar a carapuça
qual carapuça!

Further reading

“carapuça”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
“carapuça”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026