maquiaçám

Macanese

Etymology

From Portuguese malcriação, or a univerbation of Portuguese má criação, literally “bad nursing”. Compare Spanish malcriar (“to spoil”), malcriado (“spoiled”). Related to quiança and quiada, also displaying /kr/ → /k/.

Noun

maquiaçám

  1. spoiledness
    fazê maquiaçám ― to behave spoiledly (literally, “to do spoiledness”)

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