matraquear
Portuguese, verb/ma.tɾa.kiˈa(ʁ)/
matraquear is spelled M-A-T-R-A-Q-U-E-A-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 62 million words in written Portuguese, the 218,398th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Matraquear is a Portuguese verb meaning “to talk too much” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “tocar matraca”.
What does matraquear mean in English?
verb
- 1
to talk too much
- 2
to pester, to annoy
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. tocar matraca 2. falar ininterrupta e rapidamente 3. tagarelar 4. apupar
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 matraquear
- matraqueio first-person present singular
- matraqueei first-person preterite singular
- matraqueado participle past
- matraqueares infinitive second-person singular
- matraquearmos first-person infinitive plural
- matraqueardes infinitive plural second-person
- matraquearem infinitive plural third-person
- matraqueando gerund
- matraqueados masculine participle past
- matraqueada feminine participle past
- matraqueadas feminine participle past
- matraqueias indicative present second-person
- matraqueia indicative present singular
- matraqueamos first-person indicative plural
- matraqueais indicative plural present
- matraqueiam indicative plural present
- matraqueava first-person imperfect indicative
- matraqueavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce matraquear?
- Brazil /ma.tɾa.kiˈa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ma.tɾa.kiˈa(h)]
- Brazil /ma.tɾaˈkja(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is matraquear in Portuguese?
matraquear appears about once in every 62 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).