casmurro
Portuguese, noun/kazˈmu.ʁu/
casmurro is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “curmudgeon (an ill-tempered stubborn person)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “espécie de tojo”.
What does casmurro mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecurmudgeon (an ill-tempered stubborn person)
adjective
- 1
stubborn
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. triste, fechado, ensimesmado; calado, nada comunicativo, que tende a isolar-se 2. teimoso
noun: 1. espécie de tojo
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 casmurro
- casmurros plural
- casmurra feminine
- casmurras feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce casmurro?
- Brazil /kazˈmu.ʁu/
- Brazil [kazˈmu.hu]
- /kaʒˈmu.ʁu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to casmurro
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is casmurro in Portuguese?
casmurro appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).