badalhoco
Portuguese, noun/ba.daˈʎo.ku/
badalhoco is spelled B-A-D-A-L-H-O-C-O (9 letters) and appears about once in every 33 million words in written Portuguese, the 166,096th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Badalhoco is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “dirty or slovenly person” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does badalhoco mean in English?
adjective
- 1
derogatoryinformaldirty
- 2
derogatoryinformalrepulsive
noun
- 1
derogatoryinformalmasculinedirty or slovenly person
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. que causa repulsa ou mostra falta de educação; obsceno ou grosseiro
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of badalhoco
- badalhoca feminine
- badalhocos masculine plural
- badalhocas feminine plural
- metaphonic comparable
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce badalhoco?
- Brazil /ba.daˈʎo.ku/
- Portugal /bɐ.dɐˈʎo.ku/
- Portugal [bɐ.ðɐˈʎo.ku]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is badalhoco in Portuguese?
badalhoco appears about once in every 33 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).