pega
Meaning
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- (feminine) Eurasian magpie (Pica pica)
- (feminine) a prating woman, a female gossiper
- (Portugal,feminine) whore
- (Portugal,feminine,offensive) slut (a sexually promiscuous woman or girl)
Frequency
Hyphenated as
pe‧ga
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈpe.ɡɐ/
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese *pega, from Vulgar Latin peca, from Latin pīca (“magpie”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peyk- (“woodpecker; magpie”).
New
pego
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Eurasian oystercatcher (Haematopus ostralegus)
New
pegar
- (transitive) to catch
- (Brazil,transitive) to catch
- (intransitive) to pick up
- (Brazil,reflexive,slang,transitive) to engage in a romantic and/or sexual relationship with someone for one night or some short period of time
- (Brazil,colloquial,reflexive,transitive) to fight, to beat up, to engage in a physical conflict
- (intransitive,transitive) to stick, to glue
- (colloquial,intransitive) to catch on
- (Brazil,transitive) to catch, to take (a transport)
- (intransitive) to start an engine, vehicle
- (reflexive) to catch a disease
- (impersonal,reflexive) to be contagious (of a disease)
- (intransitive) to catch, take root
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