cavalo de pau
Portuguese, noun
cavalo de pau is spelled C-A-V-A-L-O-D-E-P-A-U (11 letters). Cavalo de pau is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “hobby horse (a child's toy consisting of a (usually wooden or cloth) horse's head mounted on a stick)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does cavalo de pau mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinehobby horse (a child's toy consisting of a (usually wooden or cloth) horse's head mounted on a stick)
- 2
masculinea skidding U-turn with a vehicle
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
phrase: 1. giro brusco deslizante de um veículo sobre eixo durante seu deslocamento que faz com que sua parte dianteira volte-se em sentido oposto ao que tinha em relação à direção da aceleração que vinha sendo desenvolvida
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 cavalo de pau
- cavalinhos de pau plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).