perrengue
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish perrengue.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /peˈʁẽ.ɡi/ [peˈhẽ.ɡi]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /peˈʁẽ.ɡi/ [peˈχẽ.ɡi]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /peˈʁẽ.ɡe/ [peˈhẽ.ɡe]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /pɨˈʁẽ.ɡɨ/
- Hyphenation: per‧ren‧gue
Noun
perrengue m (plural perrengues)
- (colloquial) difficulty (difficult situation)
- Synonym: apuro
Further reading
- “perrengue”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “perrengue”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026