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língua de sogra

Portuguese, noun

língua de sogra is spelled L-Í-N-G-U-A-D-E-S-O-G-R-A (13 letters). Língua de sogra is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “party horn, party blower (whistle attached to a paper tube)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, língua-de-sogra is a different word: “mother-in-law's tongue”.

What does língua de sogra mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    feminineparty horn, party blower (whistle attached to a paper tube)

noun

as língua-de-sogra
  1. 1

    femininemother-in-law's tongue

  2. 2

    femininepre-reform spelling (used until 1990) of língua de sogra; still used where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and may occur as a sporadic misspelling

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. brinquedo de papel em forma de tubo enrolado, utilizado em festas, no qual uma das extremidades é fechada e na outra tem um apito que quando soprado injeta o ar no tubo, desenrolando-o e esticando-o.

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 língua de sogra

  • línguas-de-sogra plural
  • línguas de sogra plural
  • língua-de-sogra alternative

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

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