resmungão
Portuguese, noun/ʁez.mũˈɡɐ̃w̃/
resmungão is spelled R-E-S-M-U-N-G-Ã-O (9 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written Portuguese, the 86,274th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Resmungão is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “nagger; grumbler (a person who complains too much)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “quem vive resmungando”.
What does resmungão mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinenagger; grumbler (a person who complains too much)
adjective
- 1
who complains too much
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. diz-se de quem vive resmungando
noun: 1. quem vive resmungando
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 resmungão
- resmungões plural
- resmungona feminine
- resmungonas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce resmungão?
- Brazil /ʁez.mũˈɡɐ̃w̃/
- Brazil [hez.mũˈɡɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
- /ʁeʒ.mũˈɡɐ̃w̃/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to resmungão
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is resmungão in Portuguese?
resmungão appears about once in every 8 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).