pipoca

Unknown. Sources are unanimous in mentioning a borrowing from Old Tupi pipoka,^[1][2][3][4] which is unnatested.

• Rhymes: -ɔkɐ
• Hyphenation: pi‧po‧ca

pipoca f (plural pipocas)

1. (cooking) popcorn
   • 1865, Bernardo Guimarães, “A orgia dos duendes”, in Poesias diversas, Rio de Janeiro: B. L. Garnier, page 269:

     Junto d’elle um vermelho diabo / Que sahíra do antro das phócas, / Pendurado n’um páo pelo rabo, / No borralho torrava pipócas.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1875, José de Alencar, O Sertanejo, volume 2, Rio de Janeiro: B. L. Garnier, page 175:

     […] só tinha que não podia ver cabeção de cacondê que não ficasse logo como pipoca na frigideira!

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. small skin boil

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pústula

3. tapeworm cyst embedded in meat

   Synonyms: canjica, canjiquinha, cisticerco, cisto, pipoquinha

4. (Brazil, colloquial, pathology) avian pox (disease caused by Avipoxvirus)

   Synonyms: bouba aviária, caroço

5. (Brazil, botany) candelabra tree (Senna didymobotrya)

• → Spanish: pipoca

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

pipoca

1. inflection of pipocar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Borrowed from Portuguese pipoca (“popcorn”).

pipoca f (plural pipocas)

1. (Bolivia) popcorn

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:palomita