xavecar
Portuguese, verb/ʃa.veˈka(ʁ)/
xavecar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to flirt with, to try to seduce someone by flattening” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “insinuar-se seduzentemente e com galanteio”.
What does xavecar mean in English?
verb
- 1
Brazilslangto flirt with, to try to seduce someone by flattening
Ele gostava de xavecar as meninas da escola.
- 2
Brazilslangto cheat, to act in an unfair way
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. insinuar-se seduzentemente e com galanteio 2. persuadir com lábia
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 xavecar
- xaveco first-person present singular
- xavequei first-person preterite singular
- xavecado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- xavecares infinitive second-person singular
- xavecarmos first-person infinitive plural
- xavecardes infinitive plural second-person
- xavecarem infinitive plural third-person
- xavecando gerund
- xavecados masculine participle past
- xavecada feminine participle past
- xavecadas feminine participle past
- xavecas indicative present second-person
- xaveca indicative present singular
- xavecamos first-person indicative plural
- xavecais indicative plural present
- xavecam indicative plural present
- xavecava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce xavecar?
- Brazil /ʃa.veˈka(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ʃa.veˈka(h)]
- /ʃa.veˈka(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is xavecar in Portuguese?
xavecar appears about once in every 44 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).