Masculine
desenrascanço
Meaning
- (Portugal, masculine) disentanglement (removal of complications or confusion)
- (Portugal, masculine) hack, improvised solution; a “MacGyverism”
- (Portugal, masculine, uncountable) the ability to find improvised solutions to problems
Concepts
Translations
Pronounced as (IPA)
/de.zẽ.ʁasˈkɐ̃.su/
Etymology
From desenrascar (“to disentangle”) + -anço, from des- (“un-”) + enrascar (“to entangle”), from rasca (“dragnet”).
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