labrego

From labrar (“to work the land”) +‎ -ego. Cognate with Spanish labriego.

• Hyphenation: la‧bre‧go

labrego m (plural labregos, feminine labrega, feminine plural labregas)

1. peasant, farmer

   Synonym: labrador

   • 1853, Juan Manuel Pintos, A Gaita Gallega, Pontevedra: Impr. de D. José e D. Primitivo Vilas, page 29:

     Por aquí nacen os ricos polo outro probes labregos. Estas son as dúas castes que hai en todo o mundo inteiro.

     Here the rich people are born, there the poor peasants; these are the two races that there are in the whole world

labrego (feminine labrega, masculine plural labregos, feminine plural labregas)

1. relative or pertaining to the farmers

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “labrego”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “labrego”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “labrego”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Compare Galician labrego (“farmer, peasant”), which maintains the original, nonderogatory meaning.

• Hyphenation: la‧bre‧go

labrego m (plural labregos, feminine labrega, feminine plural labregas)

1. (Portugal, derogatory) hillbilly, redneck

   Synonym: (Brazil) caipira

2. (Azores, folklore) a creature similar to a werewolf
3. (agriculture) a type of plough
4. (Bahia) citrine (yellow quartz)

labrego (feminine labrega, masculine plural labregos, feminine plural labregas)

1. (Portugal, derogatory) relative or pertaining to hillbillys; redneckish

• “labrego”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
• “labrego”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “labrego”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “labrego”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “labrego” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913