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do contra

Portuguese, noun

do contra is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “someone who always disagrees with others or tries to go against the grain” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does do contra mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininemasculinesomeone who always disagrees with others or tries to go against the grain

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

phrase: 1. que tem por praxe ser discordante e/ou contrário

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.