Gírias - Slang

Question 1

agregado

Answer 1

self-interested, apple polisher

Question 2

amarradão

Answer 2

stoked, gung-ho (lit. all tied up)

Question 3

amarrão

Answer 3

staller

Question 4

animal

Answer 4

beast (tough, technical player)

Question 5

bombado

Answer 5

juiced, on steroids

Question 6

casca-grossa

Answer 6

tough player (lit. thick-skinned)

Question 7

cavalo

Answer 7

spaz, rough player (lit. a horse)

Question 8

chora-mulato

Answer 8

slap (lit. cry-mulato)

Question 9

churriado

Answer 9

tired; feeble, gaunt

Question 10

corrido

Answer 10

coward (lit. runaway); (see mutuca)

Question 11

creonte

Answer 11

a disloyal student

Question 12

crocodilagem

Answer 12

dirty play (lit. “crocodile-ness”)

Question 13

duro

Answer 13

tough or technical (lit. hard)

Question 14

ensaboado

Answer 14

slippery (lit. lathered, soaped up)

Question 15

mole, molinho

Answer 15

sloppy, weak (lit. soft)

Question 16

escamoteado

Answer 16

sneaky

Question 17

esqui-jitsu

Answer 17

weird jiu-jitsu (esquisito means weird)

Question 18

fera

Answer 18

beast, someone extremely skilled or strong; (variants: fera solta, fera braba, feroz)

Question 19

ferrado

Answer 19

messed up, injured (lit. iron-banded)

Question 20

frango d’agua

Answer 20

skinny (lit. water chicken)

Question 21

galo branco

Answer 21

coward (lit. white rooster) (see mutaca)

Question 22

gato

Answer 22

sandbagger (lit. cat)

Question 23

geral

Answer 23

everybody (lit. general)

Question 24

jegue

Answer 24

heavy, pressure-player (lit. ass – the animal)

Question 25

mamaezada

Answer 25

weak training

Question 26

marombado

Answer 26

ripped, jacked; on steroids

Question 27

monstro

Answer 27

super good, beast (lit. monster)

Question 28

mutuca

Answer 28

someone who runs from the fight

Question 29

pangaré

Answer 29

weak in technique (lit. an old horse)

Question 30

pavio curto

Answer 30

short-fused (lit. short-wicked)

Question 31

pau-pereira

Answer 31

tough training (lit. a kind of hard wood)

Question 32

pedreira

Answer 32

tough training (lit. a stone quarry)

Question 33

pianinho

Answer 33

calm; calmly (from musical nomenclature)

Question 34

pulo do gato

Answer 34

the secret to a move (lit. the jump of the cat)

Question 35

rato

Answer 35

untrustworthy, dirty player (lit. rat)

Question 36

selva

Answer 36

rough and tough (lit. jungle)

Question 37

sinistro

Answer 37

mad skilled (lit. sinister)

Question 38

soltinho

Answer 38

light rolling (lit. loose)

Question 39

ter garrafa pra vender

Answer 39

to be tough (lit. having bottles for sale)

Question 40

treino de compadre

Answer 40

friendly sparring (compadre is what a father and a godfather are to each other)

Question 41

turista

Answer 41

student that barely shows up (lit. tourist)