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...whammo...

Portuguese translation: pimba

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English term or phrase:...whammo...
Portuguese translation:pimba
Entered by: Humberto Ribas

22:00 May 26, 2009
English to Portuguese translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature / Ficção
English term or phrase: ...whammo...
One step over it and ..., she really gets zapped.
Beth Guimaraes
Brazil
Local time: 02:50
pimba
Explanation:
mais uma para a coleção
Selected response from:

Humberto Ribas
Brazil
Local time: 02:50
Grading comment
4
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +4bum!
Sabrina Svedin (X)
3 +2bang
Mariana Moreira
4 +1azar/maldição
Maria José Tavares (X)
4 +1pimba
Humberto Ribas
4..zum...
Bentevi
4...pronto...
Floriana Leary
4zas
João Araújo
4...zuummmm e se mandou.
Marcos Antonio
4....e pumba...
Marlene Curtis


  

Answers


2 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
bang


Explanation:
uma sugestão

interj. Slang.
Used to indicate the startling abruptness of a sound, action, or event: “The alarm goes off and—whammo!—we're all at our assigned stations” (Meg Greenfield).



Mariana Moreira
Portugal
Local time: 06:50
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 75

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Humberto Ribas
10 mins
  -> Humberto, obrigada
agree  Thais Castanheira
1 hr
  -> Thais, obrigada
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2 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
azar/maldição


Explanation:
sug

Maria José Tavares (X)
Portugal
Local time: 06:50
Native speaker of: Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 66

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Leonor Machado
13 hrs
  -> Obrigada Leonor
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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
bum!


Explanation:
Barulho de estrondo no PT do Brasil

Sabrina Svedin (X)
United States
Local time: 22:50
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 20

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Humberto Ribas
9 mins
  -> Obrigada, Humberto!
agree  Marlene Curtis
1 hr
  -> Obrigada, Marlene!
agree  Antonio Tomás Lessa do Amaral
6 hrs
  -> Obrigada, Antonio!
agree  imatahan
23 hrs
  -> Obrigada :-)
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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
..zum...


Explanation:
de repente, zum!!

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Note added at 3 mins (2009-05-26 22:03:53 GMT)
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REDE DE LETRAS Gritávamos desesperadamente o nosso já citado e, reconheço, ridículo, grito de guerra andreense, quando, de repente, ZUM! Algo passa voando na minha frente ...
www.estacio.br/rededeletras/numero12/correspondentes_alem/t... -

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Note added at 4 mins (2009-05-26 22:04:22 GMT)
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Amazônia de A a Z Ave que gosta de um bom peixinho fresco, o socó passa o dia com esse pescoção encolhido até que de repente, zum! Estica o pescoço ...
portalamazonia.globo.com/categoria_artigo_amazonia_

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Note added at 4 mins (2009-05-26 22:05:10 GMT)
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whammo = wham!

wham
interj
Informal an expression indicating suddenness or forcefulness: suddenly, wham! you are caught up right in the middle of it

Bentevi
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 80
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12 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
...pronto...


Explanation:
my suggestion
...um passo por cima e pronto, ela fica toda 'zapada'...

Floriana Leary
United States
Local time: 01:50
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 40
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14 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
pimba


Explanation:
mais uma para a coleção

Humberto Ribas
Brazil
Local time: 02:50
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 28
Grading comment
4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Kadja Bless (X)
9 hrs
  -> obrigado
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25 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
zas


Explanation:
Jä agora mais uma para a colecao. Zas com acento. como estou a trabalhar com o teclado em sueco la foi o acento agudo, o til a cedilha do c, etc...

João Araújo
Portugal
Local time: 06:50
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese, Native in SwedishSwedish
PRO pts in category: 12
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29 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
...zuummmm e se mandou.


Explanation:
Sug.

zap: mover-se rapidamente -


WHAMMO.
–interjection 1. (used to indicate the sound of a blow, collision, falling object, etc.).

–noun 2. immense energy; vigor: a movie with plenty of whammo to please the kids.

–adjective 3. characterized by such a strong effect: a show with a whammo ending.

–adverb 4. wham.


Marcos Antonio
Local time: 02:50
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 234
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1 day 15 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
....e pumba...


Explanation:
A DESOBEDIÊNCIA DO CÃOZINHO De repente, pumba, ele caiu numa armadilha de caçador que fez um tremendo barulho. Sua patinha ficou presa numa coisa, que ele não sabia o que era. ...
www.contos.poesias.nom.br/adesobedienciadocaozinho/adesobed... - 23k

Marlene Curtis
United States
Local time: 01:50
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 1973
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