pulguento
Portuguese, noun/puwˈɡẽ.tu/
pulguento is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “a creature or person infested with fleas” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “cachorro”.
What does pulguento mean in English?
adjective
- 1
flea-ridden (infested with fleas)
noun
- 1
masculinea creature or person infested with fleas
- 2
derogatorymasculinea dog, specially a stray or mutt
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. que tem pulgas 2. infestado de pulgas
noun: 1. cachorro
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 pulguento
- pulguenta feminine
- pulguentos masculine plural
- pulguentas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pulguento?
- Brazil /puwˈɡẽ.tu/
- Brazil [puʊ̯ˈɡẽ.tu]
- Portugal /pulˈɡẽ.tu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to pulguento
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pulguento in Portuguese?
pulguento appears about once in every 32 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).