quebradeira
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From quebrado (“broken; bankrupt; exhausted”) + -eira.
Noun edit
quebradeira f (plural quebradeiras)
- (economics) generalised bankruptcy; economic crisis
- exhaustion (supreme tiredness)
- Synonym: exaustão
- generalised breaking of things; breakage
- brawl (a fight, especially one with a large number of people involved)
Etymology 2 edit
From quebrar (“to break”) + -deira.
Noun edit
quebradeira f (plural quebradeiras)
- a woman who works cracking open nuts or coconuts