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caneta

Significado (Inglés)

  1. (feminine) pen (writing tool)
  2. (Portugal, colloquial, feminine) leg (lower limb)
  3. (Brazil, feminine) nutmeg (action of playing the ball between the legs of an opponent)

Frecuencia

B2
Pronunciado como (IPA)
/kaˈne.tɐ/
Etimología (Inglés)

From cana (“cane, reed”) + -eta. Sense 3 is a derivation from sense 2 (itself an analogy), originally as the expression "tocar a bola por entre as canetas" ("play the ball between the legs").

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