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164 months ago

Barbara Cochran (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:

Portuguese > English

Subject:

Other

Level of diffculty:

Easy / medium

Word or term in question:

gochemente

Context:

Inspirada pelos poemas que Edgar Poe enatão compunha e lhe enviava, Isabel começou, por...

Keywords:

...essa altura, a garatujar també, gochemente alguns versos...Novie writer, right out of high school. "Awkwardly?"

 

 

clumsily; unskilfully

My comment:

Word not mentioned in any European or Brazilian Portuguese dictionary, but used by Eça de Queiroz in "Os Maias".

My references:

Sim, ela tinha razão... Era uma cobardia, era uma indignidade, continuar ali, gochemente, dissimulado na sombra, a balbuciar coisas mesquinhas. Quis ser claro, quis ser forte.