boceta

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• buceta (misspelling or alternative spelling)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese buxeta, from Late Latin buxis, borrowed from Ancient Greek πυξίς (puxís), from πῠ́ξος (pŭ́xos) + -ις (-is).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /boˈse.tɐ/, /buˈse.tɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /boˈse.tɐ/, /buˈse.tɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /boˈse.ta/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /buˈse.tɐ/

• Rhymes: -etɐ

Noun

boceta f (plural bocetas)

1. (Brazil, colloquial, vulgar) pussy; the female sexual organs

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vagina

2. (Brazil, colloquial, vulgar) fuck, shit (indicating something useless or annoying)

   Synonyms: bosta, porra, caralho, merda

   Tire essa boceta do caminho!

   Get this shit out of the way!

3. (obsolete) box

   Synonym: caixinha

   boceta de Pandora ― Pandora's box

   • 1871 December 1, “A República e os Estudantes [The República and the Students]”, in Questões do dia‎^[1], number 23, Rio de Janeiro, page 4:

     Não nos faremos cargo de demonstrar a justiça, legalidade e exequibilidade do decreto de 22 de outubro,—nova bocêta de Pandora, a que os pessimistas do dia attribuem o inxame de males […]

     We shall not undertake to demonstrate the justice, legality, and feasibility of the decree of October 22—a new Pandora's box to which today’s pessimists attribute the swarm of evils […]

Interjection

boceta!

1. (Brazil, vulgar) shit, fuck, dammit

   Boceta! A televisão pifou

   Dammit! The television is out of whack

Spanish

Verb

boceta

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