pavio curto
Portuguese, noun
pavio curto is spelled P-A-V-I-O-C-U-R-T-O (10 letters). Pavio curto is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “short fuse, short temper (irritable temperament)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does pavio curto mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineshort fuse, short temper (irritable temperament)
Ele tem o pavio curto.
- 2
masculineUsed other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pavio, curto.
adjective
- 1
irritable, temperamental, choleric
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
phrase: 1. de pouca paciência, de humor volátil e altamente iracível
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 pavio curto
- pavios curtos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).