bisbilhotice

Portuguese

FWOTD – 7 January 2024

Etymology

From bisbilhotar +‎ -ice.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /biz.bi.ʎoˈt͡ʃi.si/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /biz.bi.ʎoˈt͡ʃi.si/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /biʒ.bi.ʎoˈt͡ʃi.si/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /biz.bi.ʎoˈt͡ʃi.se/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /biʒ.bi.ʎuˈti.sɨ/ [biʒ.βi.ʎuˈti.sɨ]

• Hyphenation: bis‧bi‧lho‧ti‧ce

Noun

bisbilhotice f (plural bisbilhotices)

1. gossip (idle talk)

   Synonyms: fofoca, mexerico

   • 2011 [1926], As Torrentes da Primavera, Simon and Schuster, translation of The Torrents of Spring by Ernest Hemingway, →ISBN:

     Aquela interminável torrente de bisbilhotice literária que arrastava o casamento dela, de Diana, para o fim. Ela não podia conservá-lo. Ele ia-se embora. Embora. Ia-se embora de ao pé dela. Diana esmagada ali pela sua própria miséria.

     That interminable stream of literary gossip that was bringing her, Diana’s, marriage to an end. She couldn’t hold him. He was going. Going. Going away from her. Diana sitting there in misery.

2. snooping, eavesdropping