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frescurento

Portuguese, adjective/fɾes.kuˈɾẽ.tu/

frescurento is a Portuguese adjective meaning “fussy (tending to complain about petty details)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “inoportuno ou muito exigente em minúcias; difícil de se contentar”.

What does frescurento mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    slangfussy (tending to complain about petty details)

  2. 2

    slangoverly sentimental

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. inoportuno ou muito exigente em minúcias; difícil de se contentar 2. que se sensibiliza (se ofende, se melindra, se altera) facilmente

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 frescurento

  • frescurenta feminine
  • frescurentos masculine plural
  • frescurentas feminine plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce frescurento?

  • Brazil /fɾes.kuˈɾẽ.tu/
  • /fɾeʃ.kuˈɾẽ.tu/
  • Portugal /fɾɨʃ.kuˈɾẽ.tu/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to frescurento

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is frescurento in Portuguese?

frescurento appears about once in every 93 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).