bravo
Meaning
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- (comparable) angry; furious, annoyed
- (comparable) brave; valiant, courageous
- (comparable) coarse; uneducated, uncivilized
- (comparable) prone to irritation, easily angered, bad-tempered, choleric
- (comparable) rigorous, authoritarian
- (comparable) difficult, unmanageable (of a person or situation)
- (comparable) undomesticated (of an animal)
- (comparable) spontaneous, weed (of a plant or vegetable)
- (comparable) uncultivated (of the land)
- (comparable) stormy (of the sea)
- (Brazil,comparable,slang) a term akin to English dope, hard; meaning cool or good, usually with an aggressive connotation
Frequency
Hyphenated as
bra鈥o
Pronounced as (IPA)
/藞b删a.vu/
Etymology
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese bravo, possibly from Vulgar Latin *bravus or *brabus, from a fusion of Latin pr膩vus and barbarus.
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