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peguete

Portuguese, noun/peˈɡɛ.t͡ʃi/

peguete is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “a person one has occasional romantic or sexual encounters with” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “alguém com quem se relaciona amorosa e/ou sexualmente de modo regular ou ocasionalmente com determinada…”.

What does peguete mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    Brazilfeminineinformalmasculinea person one has occasional romantic or sexual encounters with

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. alguém com quem se relaciona amorosa e/ou sexualmente de modo regular ou ocasionalmente com determinada certeza

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 peguete

  • peguetes plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce peguete?

  • Brazil /peˈɡɛ.t͡ʃi/
  • Portugal /pɨˈɡɛ.tɨ/
  • Portugal [pɨˈɣɛ.tɨ]

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is peguete in Portuguese?

peguete appears about once in every 15 million words in written Portuguese.

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