bobear
Portuguese, verb/bo.biˈa(ʁ)/
bobear is spelled B-O-B-E-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese, the 63,394th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bobear is a Portuguese verb meaning “to fool (to act like a fool)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “dizer bobices; comportar-se como um bobo”.
What does bobear mean in English?
verb
- 1
Brazilto fool (to act like a fool)
- 2
Brazilto blunder (to say or do stupid things)
- 3
Brazilto mess up, to miss (to waste an opportunity)
- 4
Brazilcolloquialto slip (to make a mistake)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. dizer bobices; comportar-se como um bobo
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 bobear
- bobeio first-person present singular
- bobeei first-person preterite singular
- bobeado participle past
- bobeares infinitive second-person singular
- bobearmos first-person infinitive plural
- bobeardes infinitive plural second-person
- bobearem infinitive plural third-person
- bobeando gerund
- bobeados masculine participle past
- bobeada feminine participle past
- bobeadas feminine participle past
- bobeias indicative present second-person
- bobeia indicative present singular
- bobeamos first-person indicative plural
- bobeais indicative plural present
- bobeiam indicative plural present
- bobeava first-person imperfect indicative
- bobeavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bobear?
- Brazil /bo.biˈa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [bo.biˈa(h)]
- Brazil /boˈbja(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is bobear in Portuguese?
bobear appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).