boboriça
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Macanese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Portuguese bobo + -riça.[1] Origin of suffix uncertain.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
boboriça
- nonsense, absurdity
- Nê-bôm papiâ boboriça!
- Don't talk nonsense!
- Já olâ seléa boboriça?
- Have you ever seen this kind of nonsense?
References[edit]
- ^ Batalha, Graciete Nogueira (1988) “boboriça”, in Glossário do dialecto macaense: notas linguísticas, etnográficas e folclóricas [Glossary of the Macanese dialect: linguistic, ethnographic and folkloric notes], Macau: Instituto Cultural de Macau, page 464