chumaço

Meaning

Noun

1. (masculine) cushion
2. (masculine) shoulder pad
3. (masculine) swelling, tumor, mass
4. (masculine) compress; cloth used to apply pressure to wounds
5. (masculine) pine needles

Verb

first-person singular present indicative of chumaçar

Hyphenated as

chu‧ma‧ço

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ʃuˈma.su/

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin plūmācium (“feather pillow”), from plūma. Doublet of plumaço, which was borrowed from the same source.
Cognate to Galician chumaço, chomaço, and Old Spanish llumazo.