tico-tico

Portuguese

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

 

  • (Northeast Brazil) IPA(key): /tiku.ˈtiku/
  • Rhymes: -iku
  • Hyphenation: ti‧co‧ti‧co

Noun

tico-tico m (plural tico-ticos)

  1. (Brazil) rufous-collared sparrow (Zonotrichia capensis)
  2. ellipsis of serra tico-tico (“jigsaw”)

Derived terms

  • tico-tico-coleiro
  • tico-tico-do-biri
  • tico-tico-do-campo
  • tico-tico-do-mato
  • tico-tico-do-piri
  • tico-tico-guloso
  • tico-tico-rasteiro
  • tico-tico-rei

Descendants

  • → Hunsrik: Tickutick

Further reading

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.