espantalho
Appearance
Galician
[edit]Noun
[edit]espantalho m (plural espantalhos, reintegrationist norm)
- reintegrationist spelling of espantallo
Further reading
[edit]- “espantalho” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]
- Rhymes: -aʎu
- Hyphenation: es‧pan‧ta‧lho
Noun
[edit]espantalho m (plural espantalhos)
- scarecrow (figure or any object that is used to scare birds away from fields, trees, threshing floors, etc.)
- (figuratively) a deformed and ragged person
- (informal) stick with a scarf on the end, used in octopus fishing
References
[edit]- ^ “espantalho”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- ^ “espantalho”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
Further reading
[edit]- “espantalho” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- “espantalho”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
Categories:
- Galician lemmas
- Galician nouns
- Galician countable nouns
- Galician masculine nouns
- Galician reintegrationist forms
- Portuguese terms suffixed with -alho
- Portuguese 4-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Portuguese/aʎu
- Rhymes:Portuguese/aʎu/4 syllables
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- Portuguese informal terms