trocadilho
Portuguese
editEtymology
editFrom trocado (“switched”) + -ilho, from trocar (“to switch”).
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -iʎu
- Hyphenation: tro‧ca‧di‧lho
Noun
edittrocadilho m (plural trocadilhos)
- pun (joke or type of wordplay)
- Synonym: calembur
- O trocadilho, infelizmente, é intraduzível.
- The pun is unfortunately untranslatable.
- spoonerism (phrase where sounds are transposed)
- Synonym: spoonerismo
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editFurther reading
edit- “trocadilho”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
- “trocadilho”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
Categories:
- Portuguese terms suffixed with -ilho
- Portuguese 4-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Portuguese/iʎu
- Rhymes:Portuguese/iʎu/4 syllables
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- Portuguese terms with usage examples
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