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164 months ago

Barbara R. Cochran (a guest user) asked this question:

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164 months ago

airmailrpl   wrote:

stealthily..on the sly

My comment:

À sorrelfa
1 Furtivamente, sorrateiramente, à socapa.
http://aulete.uol.com.br/site.php?mdl=aulete_digital&op=loadVerbete&pesquisa=1&palavra=sorrelfa

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164 months ago

airmailrpl   wrote:

Portuguese To English - sorrelfa n. dissimulation, dissemblance, quality of being false or misleading, purposeful deception, hypocrisy, pretense

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164 months ago

LOGOS TRANSLATIONS   wrote:

surreptitiously

My comment:

imho

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164 months ago

airmailrpl   wrote:

This would be correct in another context. É possível entrar num aposento à sorrelfa, sem ser notado. However how can anyone ask a question surreptitiously... and expect it to be answered?

164 months ago

LOGOS TRANSLATIONS   wrote:

slyly

My comment:

This is not tech/engineering, please!
I happen to know because I had to look up something close to it yesterday, and I recalled that perhaps some four decades may have elapsed since the last time I read or heard "à sorrelfa" anywhere. A VERY unusual expression, at least in Brazil. Sounds really old-fashioned. Today we'd use "sorrateiramente".

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164 months ago

airmailrpl   wrote:

It's not Brazilian but European Portuguese.

164 months ago

airmailrpl   wrote:

Then it may be okay, still current. I wouldn't be an expert in PT-PT. As it was obviously spoken in Brazil in ancient times, it's more likely to have preserved such expression alive.