cagueta
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- caguete
- cagüeta (pre-1990 spelling)
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /kaˈɡwe.tɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /kaˈɡwe.ta/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /kɐˈɡwe.tɐ/ [kɐˈɣwe.tɐ]
- Hyphenation: ca‧gue‧ta
Noun
cagueta m or f by sense (plural caguetas)
- (Brazil, slang) snitch, informer
Alternative forms
- cagüeta (pre-1990 spelling)
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /kaˈɡwɛ.tɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /kaˈɡwɛ.ta/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /kɐˈɡwɛ.tɐ/ [kɐˈɣwɛ.tɐ]
- Hyphenation: ca‧gue‧ta
Verb
cagueta
- inflection of caguetar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaˈɡeta/ [kaˈɣ̞e.t̪a]
- Rhymes: -eta
- Syllabification: ca‧gue‧ta
Noun
cagueta f (plural caguetas)
- (vulgar) chicken, wuss (coward)
- Synonyms: cagado, cagón, cobarde, gallina
Further reading
- “cagueta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014