mosca
Meaning
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- (feminine) fly (various insects in the order Diptera)
- (feminine) soul patch (narrow beard)
- (feminine) bullseye (centre of a target)
- (colloquial,feminine) an annoying person
Frequency
Hyphenated as
mos‧ca
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈmos.kɐ/
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese mosca, from Latin musca, from a Proto-Indo-European root *mus-, *mu-, *mew-.
New
moscar
- (Brazil,idiomatic,intransitive) to behave inattentively, obliviously, or uncarefully
- (Brazil,idiomatic,intransitive) to doze, to slumber (to sleep very briefly and unintentionally)
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