molejo
Portuguese, noun/moˈle.ʒu/
molejo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “groove; swagger (having confident body movement)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “maneira com que uma pessoa dança, com calma e com estilo”.
What does molejo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinegroove; swagger (having confident body movement)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. maneira com que uma pessoa dança, com calma e com estilo 2. gingado 3. jeito 4. aptidão
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.
How do you pronounce molejo?
- Brazil /moˈle.ʒu/
- Portugal /muˈlɐ(j).ʒu/
- Portugal /muˈle.ʒu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is molejo in Portuguese?
molejo appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).