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cisco

Spanish translation: escuchimizado

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Portuguese term or phrase:cisco
Spanish translation:escuchimizado
Entered by: Montse Ballesteros

08:51 Aug 27, 2013
Portuguese to Spanish translations [PRO]
Poetry & Literature
Portuguese term or phrase: cisco
Un chico se llama Cisco y dice que es pq es bajito..... ¿tiene este nombre alguna connotación? Es portugués de Brasil....gracias.
Jesús Marín Mateos
Local time: 11:23
escuchimizado
Explanation:
Pues si dices que tiene ese nombre por ser bajito, lo que más me concuerda es "escuchimizado".

cisco ['siʃku] m
1. basura ƒ.
2. (de carvão) cisco m.
Locuciones:
» como c. fig & fam para parar un tren;
» ser um c. fig & fam ser escuchimizado;
» virar c. fig & fam llevarse el diablo ou el viento, estar hecho cisco
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Montse Ballesteros
Spain
Local time: 12:23
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5 +1cisco
Ludmila Portela
3escuchimizado
Montse Ballesteros


  

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escuchimizado


Explanation:
Pues si dices que tiene ese nombre por ser bajito, lo que más me concuerda es "escuchimizado".

cisco ['siʃku] m
1. basura ƒ.
2. (de carvão) cisco m.
Locuciones:
» como c. fig & fam para parar un tren;
» ser um c. fig & fam ser escuchimizado;
» virar c. fig & fam llevarse el diablo ou el viento, estar hecho cisco

Montse Ballesteros
Spain
Local time: 12:23
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Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish, Native in CatalanCatalan
PRO pts in category: 24
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cisco


Explanation:
Un "cisco" es una cosa muy pequeña, un fragmento de arena que entra en el ojo, por ejemplo, se dice "cisco". O sea, me imagino que sea por ser pequeño, bajito....También se dice por aquí "um cisco de gente". :)


Dicionário Houaiss
n substantivo masculino
1 pó ou miudezas de carvão
2 lixo
3 material sólido e heterogêneo (gravetos, ramos, algas etc.) trazido pelas enxurradas
4 designação comum às aparas miúdas
5 Regionalismo: Brasil.
partícula ou grânulo (de poeira etc.) que entra acidentalmente no olho; argueiro
6 Rubrica: música.
conjunto de instrumentistas na folia de reis

Ludmila Portela
Brazil
Local time: 07:23
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 16

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