cavoucar
Portuguese, verb/ka.vo(w)ˈka(ʁ)/
cavoucar is spelled C-A-V-O-U-C-A-R (8 letters). Cavoucar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to make a pit or hole” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does cavoucar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to make a pit or hole
- 2
to poke, to rummage, e.g. cavoucar o nariz (“to pick one's nose”)
- 3
to dig like an animal (like a dog or armadillo)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of cavoucar
- cavouco first-person present singular
- cavouquei first-person preterite singular
- cavoucado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- cavoucares infinitive second-person singular
- cavoucarmos first-person infinitive plural
- cavoucardes infinitive plural second-person
- cavoucarem infinitive plural third-person
- cavoucando gerund
- cavoucados masculine participle past
- cavoucada feminine participle past
- cavoucadas feminine participle past
- cavoucas indicative present second-person
- cavouca indicative present singular
- cavoucamos first-person indicative plural
- cavoucais indicative plural present
- cavoucam indicative plural present
- cavoucava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cavoucar?
- Brazil /ka.vo(w)ˈka(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ka.vo(ʊ̯)ˈka(h)]
- /ka.vo(w)ˈka(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.