tinker toy

Portuguese translation: brinquedo de montar

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English term or phrase:	tinker toy
Portuguese translation:	brinquedo de montar
Entered by:	Cristina Spohr

20:23 Jan 24, 2009

English to Portuguese translations [Non-PRO]
Other / Brinquedos

English term or phrase: tinker toy

Qual seria a tradução de "tinker toy para a língua portuguesa.

O texto abaixo foi tirado do Corpus, para propicionar um contexto.

We have a standing army with a budget of hundreds of billions of dollars. You can't go in and, like a tinker toy, and play around and say, " You can't spend the money on this piece and this piece and " -- he -- able -- he'll be able to keep those troops there forever constitutionally if he wants to.

Cristina Spohr Not a translator KudoZ activity Questions: 115 (none open) Answers: 0 Brazil
Local time: 01:22

brinquedo (com varetas) de montar

Explanation:
http://www.sk.com.br/forum/display_message.php?message_id=84...

http://images.google.com.br/images?gbv=2&hl=pt-BR&q=tinker t...

Selected response from:

priscilalaterza
Brazil
Local time: 01:22

Grading comment

4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

4 +3

brinquedo (com varetas) de montar

priscilalaterza

brinquedo do funileiro

Floriana Leary

brinquedo de lata

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida

brinquedo Lego

Edimilson Ferreira

Answers

15 mins confidence:

brinquedo Lego

Explanation:
A única coisa que me ocorre é isso. Acho que se trata de uma referência a um brinquedo infantil conhecido no Brasil como Lego. Pelo menos é assim que eu conheço esse jogo.

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Note added at 15 mins (2009-01-24 20:39:40 GMT)
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http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Tinker toy

Edimilson Ferreira
Armenia
Local time: 08:22
Native speaker of: Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 144

19 mins confidence:

brinquedo de lata

Explanation:
Para mim é isso...

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Portugal
Local time: 05:22
Native speaker of:

Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 743

20 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +3

brinquedo (com varetas) de montar

Explanation:
http://www.sk.com.br/forum/display_message.php?message_id=84...

http://images.google.com.br/images?gbv=2&hl=pt-BR&q=tinker t...

priscilalaterza
Brazil
Local time: 01:22
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 12

23 mins confidence:

brinquedo do funileiro

Explanation:
my suggestion
please see references

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinker_toy
Reference: http://www.iconocast.com/00029_Portu/Y9/News4.htm-

Floriana Leary
United States
Local time: 00:22
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English,

Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 48

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