boboriça

Macanese

Etymology

Portuguese bobo +‎ -riça.^[1] Origin of suffix uncertain.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /bu.buˈɾi.sa/

Noun

boboriça

nonsense, absurdity
Nê-bôm papiâ boboriça!
Don't talk nonsense!

Já olâ seléa boboriça?
Have you ever seen this kind of nonsense?

References

^ Batalha, Graciete Nogueira (1988) “boboriça”, in Glossário do dialecto macaense: notas linguísticas, etnográficas e folclóricas [Glossary of the Macanese dialect: linguistic, ethnographic and folkloric notes], Macau: Instituto Cultural de Macau, page 464

Further reading

https://belamaquista.wordpress.com/2016/06/22/boborica/

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