fuçar
Portuguese, verb/fuˈsa(ʁ)/
fuçar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to smell with its snout” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “revolver (a terra) com o focinho; fossar”.
What does fuçar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to smell with its snout
- 2
to pry; to explore or look curiously at something
- 3
to rummage (to hastily and messily search for something)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. revolver (a terra) com o focinho; fossar 2. remexer (as coisas) à procura de algo 3. vasculhar (vida e negócios alheios); bisbilhotar, sondar 4. tentar penetrar com insistência na defesa adversária
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 fuçar
- fuço first-person present singular
- fucei first-person preterite singular
- fuçado participle past
- c-ç alternation
- fuçares infinitive second-person singular
- fuçarmos first-person infinitive plural
- fuçardes infinitive plural second-person
- fuçarem infinitive plural third-person
- fuçando gerund
- fuçados masculine participle past
- fuçada feminine participle past
- fuçadas feminine participle past
- fuças indicative present second-person
- fuça indicative present singular
- fuçamos first-person indicative plural
- fuçais indicative plural present
- fuçam indicative plural present
- fuçava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fuçar?
- Brazil /fuˈsa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [fuˈsa(h)]
- /fuˈsa(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to fuçar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fuçar in Portuguese?
fuçar 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).