galo
Meaning
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- (masculine) rooster (male of the domestic chicken)
- (masculine) a swelling on the forehead, resulting from a blow
- (masculine) any fish of the order Zeiformes
Frequency
Hyphenated as
ga‧lo
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈɡa.lu/
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese galo, from Latin gallus (“rooster”). Cognate with Galician galo and Spanish gallo.
New
galar
- (transitive) to mate with (a female bird) (of a male bird)
- (Portugal,colloquial,transitive) to ogle
- (Portugal,colloquial,transitive) to woo, to seduce
- (Brazil,colloquial,transitive) to knock up, to get pregnant
- (Northeast-Brazil,intransitive,vulgar) to cum
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