cafofo
Portuguese
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- Hyphenation: ca‧fo‧fo
Noun
editcafofo m (plural cafofos)
- pit, hole
- hideout
- Synonym: esconderijo
- (historical) place where slaves were kept before being sold
- (Brazil, endearing) home, especially a small and modest but cozy habitation
- (Brazil) swampy land that exhales a bad odor because it contains putrefying organic matter
- (Brazil) a hole that is used to store illegal objects in prisons
- (Brazil) a hole serving as a foundation of a building
- (Brazil) latrine
Noun
editcafofo m (plural cafofos, feminine cafofa, feminine plural cafofas)
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- Portuguese terms borrowed from Kimbundu
- Portuguese terms derived from Kimbundu
- Portuguese 3-syllable words
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- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- Portuguese terms with historical senses
- Brazilian Portuguese
- Portuguese endearing terms
- Angolan Portuguese
- pt:Construction
- pt:Prison
- pt:Slavery
- pt:Vision
- pt:Toilet (room)