Noun: bicha
Gender: f
mf
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | bicha |
| Singular f | bicha |
| Plural m | bichas |
| Plural f | bichas |
Sample Sentences
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A empregada bem gritava com eles: — Ou se põem em bicha ou não atendo ninguém! Mas a bicha era sempre um magote de gente aos encontrões, todos a tentarem ser atendidos primeiro. (The employee yelled at them: “form a line or I won’t serve anybody!” But the line was always a bunch of people bumping into each other, all trying to be served first.) [1984, Ana Maria Magalhães, Isabel Alçada, Uma aventura na cidade, 19th edition, Editorial Caminho, published 2012, →ISBN, page 28:]
Nouns inflected like bicha
semita,
sensei,
selfie,
neurologista,
violinista,
gremista,
sapeca,
militante,
sacana,
antitradicionalista,
sovina,
somali,
activista,
belmontense,
flautista,
humanista,
antiaristocrata,
felgueirense,
adjuvante,
antissemita, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin bīstia, variant of Latin bēstia. Doublet of besta. Sense of "homosexual" possibly influenced by the sense of "prostitute" or by English bitch (also related to the possible origin in Portuguese). See: Latin Nouns '
bēstia'.
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