macaquear
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Portuguese
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From macaco (“monkey”) + -ear.
Pronunciation
[edit]
- Hyphenation: ma‧ca‧que‧ar
Verb
[edit]macaquear (first-person singular present macaqueio, first-person singular preterite macaqueei, past participle macaqueado)
- (intransitive) to monkey (to mess)
- (transitive) to monkey; to ape (to imitate)
- Synonym: imitar
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of macaquear (e becomes ei when stressed) (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Further reading
[edit]- “macaquear”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024