Noun: bigode
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | bigode |
| Plural m | bigodes |
Sample Sentences
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Salvador Dalí tinha um bigode muito peculiar. (Salvador Dalí had a very peculiar moustache.)
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Sabes que o bigode / já não está na moda / nem com buços do vinho / dá mais música à bófia [2014, “Dá mais música à bófia”, in B Fachada, performed by B Fachada:]
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Os tigres têm bigodes. (Tigers have whiskers.)
Nouns inflected like bigode
egocentrismo,
lantanídeo,
lantanídio,
miligrama,
flash card,
decímetro,
fingimento,
mililitro,
parassuicídio,
algómetro,
ancoradouro,
ancoradoiro,
escândalo,
sereio,
sereno,
sestro,
seguro,
senado,
enlatamento,
Dezembro, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Unknown. Theories include:
2. * from Middle High German bi got (“by God”) (modern bei Gott (“by God”)), due to the use of moustache by Landsknecht mercenaries;
3. * from vigote, diminutive of viga (“beam”).
4. Cognate with Galician bigode, Mirandese, Asturian, Spanish, and Aragonese bigote and Catalan bigoti. See: Galician Nouns '
bigode', Catalan Nouns '
bigoti'.
Verbs referencing "bigode"
Galician Nouns
bigote, Spanish Nouns
bigote, Galician Nouns
bigode, French Nouns
bigoudi.
Translations