Feminine
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caneta

Meaning

  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)

Frequency

B2
Pronounced as (IPA)
/kaˈne.tɐ/
Etymology

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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