Tilambuco.
A fictitious toponym used solely to trick someone when asking them about its demonym (it is expected that, by analogy to, for example, Pernambuco, whose demonym is "pernambucano", one would respond that a person born in Tilambuco is a "tilambucano", which sounds similar to "te lambo o cano", literally "I lick your pipe", with "pipe" being a metaphor for penis)
Meaning & usage
A fictitious toponym used solely to trick someone when asking them about its demonym (it is expected that, by analogy to, for example, Pernambuco, whose demonym is "pernambucano", one would respond that a person born in Tilambuco is a "tilambucano", which sounds similar to "te lambo o cano", literally "I lick your pipe", with "pipe" being a metaphor for penis)
– Quem nasce em Pernambuco é pernambucano. E quem nasce em Tilambuco, é o quê? – Tilambucano. – Fica à vontade, pode lamber sim.
Where this word comes from
Used because one possible demonym, "tilambucano", sounds similar to "te lambo o cano" (literally "I lick your pipe") in colloquial speech.
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