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lágrimas de crocodilo

Portuguese, noun

lágrimas de crocodilo is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “crocodile tears (display of tears that is forced or false)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does lágrimas de crocodilo mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininecrocodile tears (display of tears that is forced or false)

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

phrase: 1. lamúrias fingidas 2. lágrimas de falso arrependimento 3. choro hipócrita

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.