pau-mandado
Portuguese, noun
pau-mandado is spelled P-A-U-M-A-N-D-A-D-O (10 letters). Pau-mandado is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “a person regarded as a witting puppet or tool for another/others” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “aquele que faz tudo o que quer a vontade alheia”.
What does pau-mandado mean in English?
noun
- 1
derogatoryinformalmasculinea person regarded as a witting puppet or tool for another/others
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. aquele que faz tudo o que quer a vontade alheia
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 pau-mandado
- paus-mandados plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).