varejeira

Portuguese

Etymology

From varejar +‎ -eira.[1]

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /va.ɾeˈʒe(j).ɾɐ/ [va.ɾeˈʒe(ɪ̯).ɾɐ]
 

  • Rhymes: -ejɾɐ, -ejɾɐ, -ɐjɾɐ
  • Hyphenation: va‧re‧jei‧ra

Noun

varejeira f (plural varejeiras)

  1. blowfly; botfly (insect whose larvae are parasites of mammals)
    Synonyms: mosca-varejeira, mosca-do-berne
    • 1893, Adolfo Caminha, chapter II, in A Normalista [The Normal-School Student], 2nd edition, Rio de Janeiro: Magalhães & C., page 33:
      Nunca mais lhe sahira da cabeça um retirante que ella vira estendido no meio do caminho, sobre o areial quente, ao meio dia em ponto, morto, e completamente nú, com os olhos já comidos pelos urubús, os intestinos fóra, devorados pelas varejeiras... Que feio aquillo!
      It would never leave her head anymore: an emigrant that she saw lying on the path, over the hot sand, at high noon, dead and completely naked, with his eyes already eaten by buzzards, his intestines on the outside, devoured by botflies... How ugly was that!

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Machado, José Pedro (1995), “varejeira”, in Dicionário etimológico da língua portuguesa [Etymological dictionary of the Portuguese language] (in Portuguese), 7 edition, volume V (Q–Z), Lisboa: Livros Horizonte, →ISBN, page 376, column 2

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