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163 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:

versão brejeiira

Context:

...num tom maganão começou a segredar-lhe ao ouvido uma versão brejeira da peça.

 

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163 months ago

  See profile wrote:

cheap, vulgar version

163 months ago

airmailrpl  See profile wrote:

spicy version

My comment:

versão brejeiira => spicy version

My references:


brejeira |è|
s. f.
1. Mulher considerada sem vergonha, maliciosa.
2. [Brasil] Porção de tabaco que certas pessoas mascam.


brejeirar |è| - Conjugar
v. intr.
1. Praticar acções de brejeiro.
2. Vadiar, garotar.


brejeiro |è|
s. m.
1. Pessoa que comete actos de libertino ou próprios de garoto.
adj.
2. Ordinário; agaiatado.
3. Grosseiro.
4. Malicioso.
5. Tunante.

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163 months ago

airmailrpl  See profile wrote:

a coarse version of the play

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163 months ago

  See profile wrote:

breja is corny or kitsch