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a real junkie

Portuguese translation: um verdadeiro \"noia\"

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English term or phrase:a real junkie
Portuguese translation:um verdadeiro \"noia\"
Entered by: Jerzy CertTrans

04:56 Dec 9, 2019
English to Portuguese translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature / Slang terms related to drugs and sex
English term or phrase: a real junkie
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Jerzy CertTrans
United States
Local time: 01:40
um verdadeiro "noia"
Explanation:
This is how this kind of addict is called here in Brazil as a "street slang" just like "junkie". You can use "um verdadeiro viciado" but the context is really informal.
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Maria Stella Tupynambá
Brazil
Local time: 03:40
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Summary of answers provided
4 +3um verdadeiro viciado
Augusto Rochadel
5 +1um verdadeiro ganzado
Teresa Bento
4 +1um verdadeiro drogado
Jane Rezende
4 +1um verdadeiro chapado/noiado
Marina Soares
4um verdadeiro "noia"
Maria Stella Tupynambá
3 +1um autêntico pedrado/mocado ou estar com alta pedra/moca
expressisverbis
3um verdadeiro bolado
Clauwolf


  

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47 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
um verdadeiro "noia"


Explanation:
This is how this kind of addict is called here in Brazil as a "street slang" just like "junkie". You can use "um verdadeiro viciado" but the context is really informal.

Example sentence(s):
  • Hoje alterno períodos de seis meses sem usar, mas sempre recaio. Chego a ficar dois dias fora de casa. Virei um ‘noia’. Por insistência da família, decidi me internar no último dia 8. Fui para a clínica só com a roupa do corpo e com a vontade de

    https://vejasp.abril.com.br/cidades/crack-virei-um-noia/
Maria Stella Tupynambá
Brazil
Local time: 03:40
Native speaker of: Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 4
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
um verdadeiro viciado


Explanation:
sugestão.

Augusto Rochadel
Brazil
Local time: 03:40
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 20

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agree  Bruno Dutra: agreed
5 hrs
agree  airmailrpl
6 hrs
agree  Nick Taylor
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
um verdadeiro drogado


Explanation:
sugestão

Jane Rezende
Brazil
Local time: 03:40
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 57

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agree  expressisverbis
2 hrs
  -> Tks! ;-)
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um verdadeiro ganzado


Explanation:
Ou "janado".

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Note added at 5 hrs (2019-12-09 10:45:25 GMT)
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Jerzy, "Agarrado" também poderá funcionar.
https://www.infopedia.pt/dicionarios/lingua-portuguesa/agarr...


    https://dicionario.priberam.org/ganzado
    https://dicionario.priberam.org/janado
Teresa Bento
Portugal
Local time: 07:40
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 4

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agree  expressisverbis
11 mins
  -> Obrigada!
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5 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
um verdadeiro chapado/noiado


Explanation:
Sug.

Marina Soares
Local time: 03:40
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese

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agree  Sonia Mendes
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um autêntico pedrado/mocado ou estar com alta pedra/moca


Explanation:
3. [Portugal, Informal] Que está sob o efeito de uma droga.

"pedrado", in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa [em linha], 2008-2013, https://dicionario.priberam.org/pedrado [consultado em 09-12-2019].

[Portugal, Informal] Que ou aquele que está sob o efeito de drogas. = GANZADO, JANADO

"mocado", in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa [em linha], 2008-2013, https://dicionario.priberam.org/mocado [consultado em 09-12-2019].

https://natura.di.uminho.pt/~jj/pln/calao/dicionario.pdf

Mais algumas sugestões a juntar às da Teresa, para pt-pt.


expressisverbis
Portugal
Local time: 07:40
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 40

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agree  Teresa Bento
1 hr
  -> Obrigada Teresa.
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um verdadeiro bolado


Explanation:
:)

Clauwolf
Local time: 03:40
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PRO pts in category: 280
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