barbeiro

Meaning

1. (masculine) barber (person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards)
2. (colloquial,masculine,metonymically) barbershop (place of business of a barber)
3. (Brazil,masculine) kissing bug (any haematophagous bug in the subfamily Triatominae)
4. (Brazil,derogatory,masculine,slang) road hog (bad or inconsiderate driver)

Hyphenated as

bar‧bei‧ro

Gender

♂️ Masculine

Pronounced as (IPA)

/baʁˈbe(j).ɾu/

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese *barveiro. By surface analysis, barba (“beard”) + -eiro.
Cognate with Galician barbeiro.