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geringonça

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish jerigonza, from Old Occitan gergons, from Old French jargon. Doublet of jargão.

The political sense was a generalization of the informal name given to the 21st Portuguese government.

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: ge‧rin‧gon‧ça

Noun

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geringonça f (plural geringonças)

  1. contraption (complicated and precarious machine)
    Synonym: engenhoca
  2. slang (language outside of conventional usage)
    Synonyms: gíria, calão
  3. (Portugal, politics) a government formed by several parties, often in order to prevent a party who won a simple majority, from governing