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pegas

Portuguese, noun

pegas is a Portuguese noun meaning “plural of pega (“Eurasian magpie; gossipy woman”)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, pêgas is a different word: “feminine plural of pêgo”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “advogado que usa de artifícios para complicar um processo”.

What does pegas mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    plural of pega (“Eurasian magpie; gossipy woman”)

noun

  1. 1

    plural of pega (“handle; fight”)

noun

  1. 1

    plural of pega (“fetter”)

verb

  1. 1

    Brazilfemininefeminine plural of pego

verb

  1. 1

    second-person singular present indicative of pegar

verb

as pêgas
  1. 1

    femininefeminine plural of pêgo

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. advogado que usa de artifícios para complicar um processo

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 common is pegas in Portuguese?

pegas appears 1.7 times per million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).