bobo
Portuguese, noun
bobo is spelled B-O-B-O (4 letters) and appears 11 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 6,851st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bobo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “jester (person who amused a medieval court)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, bobó is a different word: “fellatio”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “bobo da corte: pessoa que na Idade Média divertia os nobres com piadas e comicidades”.
What does bobo mean in English?
adjective
- 1
Brazilsilly, stupid
- 2
Brazilnaive
noun
- 1
masculinejester (person who amused a medieval court)
- 2
Brazilmasculinea stupid or naive person; a fool
noun
- 1
Portugalcolloquialmasculinevulgarfellatio
noun
- 1
Brazilmasculinedish made of manioc cream
- 2
Brazilmasculinedish made of beans, plantain and palm oil
noun
- 1
masculinebeef lung
- 2
colloquialmasculinepregnancy
- 3
masculinekillifish (any of a number of tiny fish in the Cyprinodontidae family)
- 4
masculinelove-apple (Solanum aculeatissimum)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. diz-se de pessoa que diz ou que faz bobagens 2. que tem deficiência intelectual
noun: 1. bobo da corte: pessoa que na Idade Média divertia os nobres com piadas e comicidades 2. pessoa de caráter ingênuo 3. pessoa com deficiência intelectual 4. ave ciconiforme europeia da família dos procelariídeos
noun: 1. comida africana, usada na Bahia, e feita de uma espécie de feijão com um pouco de banana 2. creme pouco consistente feito de mandioca, etc., cozidos e amassados com azeite-de-dendê, pimenta, sal e um pouco de camarão seco 3. felação 4. bobo, de pouca inteligência, deficiente; que diz bobagens
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 bobo
- boba feminine
- bobos masculine plural
- bobas feminine plural
- bobós plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to bobo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bobo in Portuguese?
bobo appears 11 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).