maquiaçám

Macanese

Etymology

From Portuguese malcriação, or a univerbation of Portuguese má criação, literally “bad nursing”. Compare Spanish malcriar (“to spoil”), malcriado (“spoiled”). Related to quiança and quiada, also displaying /kr/ → /k/.

Noun

maquiaçám

1. spoiledness

   fazê maquiaçám ― to behave spoiledly (literally, “to do spoiledness”)

Related terms

• maquiâ

References

• https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm#m