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bagunça

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Portuguese

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Etymology 1

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Thought to be of onomatopoeic origin. Possibly from bag + pejorative -unça.[1] Compare Sicilian baconca.

Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese into European Portuguese.

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: ba‧gun‧ça

Noun

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bagunça f (plural bagunças)

  1. (informal) mess, disorder
    Synonyms: desordem, confusão
    • 2010 September 10, Pedro Araújo Pina, “"Isto é tudo uma bagunça" [“This is all a mess]”, in Observador[1], retrieved 2024-07-22:
      "Podia chamar um rancho folclórico, mas assim poderia estar a ofender os ranchos folclóricos. Acho que é mais rebaldaria ou bagunça (...)"
      “I could call it a folkloric ranch, but then I could be offending the folkloric ranches. I think it's more of a pandemonium or a mess (...)”
    • 2021 December 15, Rui Santos, “A grande bagunça [The big mess]”, in CNN Portugal[2], retrieved 2024-07-22:
      A bagunça é total e isto só lá vai quando, por via de lei, os clubes deixarem de ser os (não) “reguladores” de si próprios.
      It's a total mess and it won't stop being one until, by law, the clubs stop being the (non-)“regulators” of themselves.
    • 2024 February 21, Agência Lusa, “Pedro Nuno Santos: “A direita é a bagunça que teria consequências em Portugal se por acaso eles tivessem a vitória” [Pedro Nuno Santos: “The right is the mess that would have consequences in Portugal if they happened to win”]”, in Observador[3], retrieved 2024-07-22:
  2. (informal) clutter
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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bagunça

  1. inflection of bagunçar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

References

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  1. ^ 'A origem e o significado de bagunça' in Ciberdúvidas da Língua Portuguesa.

Further reading

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