carrapicho
Portuguese
Etymology
Alteration of carrapito.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ka.ʁaˈpi.ʃu/ [ka.haˈpi.ʃu]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ka.ʁaˈpi.ʃu/ [ka.χaˈpi.ʃu]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ka.ʁaˈpi.ʃo/ [ka.haˈpi.ʃo]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /kɐ.ʁɐˈpi.ʃu/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /kɐ.ʁɐˈpi.t͡ʃu/
- Rhymes: -iʃu
- Hyphenation: car‧ra‧pi‧cho
Noun
carrapicho m (plural carrapichos)
- (botany) any plant of the Acanthospermum genus
- Synonym: amor-de-burro
- the seed of that plant
- the fruit of that plant
- bun, part of the hair lying on the back of the head
- shaggy and hard-to-comb hair
- (dialectal) whim
- Synonym: capricho
- Velcro
- Synonym: velcro
Further reading
- “carrapicho”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “carrapicho”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026