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cabôco

English translation: guy

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Portuguese term or phrase:cabôco
English translation:guy
Entered by: rhandler

14:38 Aug 18, 2006
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
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Portuguese term or phrase: cabôco
Aí chegue e disse "ABC, é ladrão você, fulano, sincrano". Esse cabôco ficou doido conmigo, disse que ia me processar, não sei o quê.
Michael Powers (PhD)
United States
Local time: 10:53
guy
Explanation:
That's what it means!
Selected response from:

rhandler
Local time: 11:53
Grading comment
Thank you, everyone, so much for your help once again. - Mike :)
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
5 +5guy
rhandler
4 +4dude, mate, bloke, fellow, punter
Lincoln Silveira (X)
4 +1bloke
Denise Miranda
4 +1"cabôco"
Claudio Mazotti
5cabôco => caboclo => hick..red-neck..
airmailrpl


Discussion entries: 2





  

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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +5
guy


Explanation:
That's what it means!


rhandler
Local time: 11:53
Native speaker of: Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 72
Grading comment
Thank you, everyone, so much for your help once again. - Mike :)

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  ooooo (X): É isso mesmo... o 'pobrema' é com o 'conmigo', não acha rhandler..rs!
8 mins
  -> Obrigado, Helio. É que o Mike fala espanhol e português, e às vezes dá curto.
agree  Irina Dicovsky - MD (X): "às vez" embatata, mesmo!
29 mins
  -> Obrigado, Irina. Se falar italiano também, fica impossível!
agree  Fernando Domeniconi: LOL
31 mins
  -> Obrigado, Fernando. É isso aí!
agree  marina hennies
3 hrs
  -> Obrigado, marina.
agree  Paulo Wengorski
1 day 57 mins
  -> Obrigado, Paulo.
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14 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
dude, mate, bloke, fellow, punter


Explanation:
Will depend on context, but cabôco is a corruption of "cabôclo", a mestice of European and Brazilian (indian) origin. It is a way to refer to (here in Ceará and in the Northeast in general) someone, sometimes in a derrogative way.

Lincoln Silveira (X)
Brazil
Local time: 11:53
Native speaker of: Portuguese

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Irina Dicovsky - MD (X): também!
18 mins
  -> tks
agree  Fernando Domeniconi: I also like fellow (or fella)
21 mins
  -> fella is even more colloquial indeed
agree  Donna Sandin: In Sao Paulo, I'm told, it's used to refer to people of a lower social class in terms of their culture and behavior - I like dude, but perhaps more derogatory nuance is needed?
4 hrs
agree  edupa
7 days
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19 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
bloke


Explanation:
cabôco is how the term 'caboclo' is pronounced on the streets.
Could be guy or bloke:
bloke n. pron. "blowk" (English); "bloke" (the rest of us). The closest American equivalent is guy, and it is pretty close. A bloke is a joe public, a random punter - any old guy off the street. Where it differs from guy is that it can't apply to your friends. You can't walk up to a group of your mates and say "Hi blokes, what's up?", as they'd all peer at you as if you'd been reading some strange cross-channel dictionary. The most common usage of the word bloke is almost definitely in the phrase "some bloke in the pub".





    Reference: http://english2american.com/dictionary/b.html
Denise Miranda
Local time: 11:53
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Irina Dicovsky - MD (X): Do outro lado do oceano, sem dúvida...
14 mins
  -> Thanks!
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22 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
"cabôco"


Explanation:
I would leave in its original form, it's a short of "caboclo" - a typical persona in the Brazilian culture. It is a type of mestizo.

The persona of the caboclo or 'mestizo,' represented by mediums during possession, is a central figure in the possession cults of urban Amazonia. ...
www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-93131...

1890—White (branco), Black (preto), Caboclo (Mestizo Indian), Mestiço. 1900—No color question ... brown or mixed (pardo), caboclo (mestizo In- ...
www.hsph.harvard.edu/disparities/04_hd3_nobles.pdf

In Brazil , caboclo , mameluco and a variety of other terms are used , along with mestizo . The concept of mestizo has also been introduced into the United ...
www.quechuanetwork.org/news_template.cfm?lang=f&news_id=358...

In Brazil an Indian who takes up farming away from a tribal village becomes a caboclo or perhaps a mestizo or simply a Brazilian peasant . ...
www.descendantofgods.tripod.com/id144.html

A caboclo is a person of mixed Brazilian Indian and European ancestry. In Brazil, a caboclo is a specific type of mestizo. ...
www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caboclo


Claudio Mazotti
Brazil
Native speaker of: Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 35

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Ivaneide: This best defines
5 hrs
  -> tks a lot!!!
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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
cabôco => caboclo => hick..red-neck..


Explanation:
cabôco => caboclo => hick..red-neck..

airmailrpl
Brazil
Local time: 11:53
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 80
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