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
feminineparty horn, party blower (whistle attached to a paper tube)
noun
- 1
femininemother-in-law's tongue
- 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).