bundão
Portuguese, noun/bũˈdɐ̃w̃/
bundão is spelled B-U-N-D-Ã-O (6 letters) and appears 2.3 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 20,222nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bundão is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “chicken; coward; wuss” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also an augmentative of bunda. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pessoa covarde, sem atitude”.
What does bundão mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineaugmentative of bunda
- 2
colloquialmasculinechicken; coward; wuss
adjective
- 1
colloquialcowardly
- 2
colloquialstupid, dumb
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. pessoa covarde, sem atitude
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 bundão
- bundões plural
- bundona feminine
- bundonas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bundão?
- Brazil /bũˈdɐ̃w̃/
- Brazil [bũˈdɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
- Portugal /bũˈdɐ̃w̃/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to bundão
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bundão in Portuguese?
bundão appears 2.3 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).