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cutucar.

to poke (to jab with a pointed object such as a finger or a stick)

7 characters3 syllables approx.Português language

Meaning & usage

verb/ku.tuˈka(ʁ)/Brazil[ku.tuˈka(h)]Brazil/ku.tuˈka(ɾ)/São-Paulo/ku.tuˈka(ʁ)/Rio-de-Janeiro
  1. to poke (to jab with a pointed object such as a finger or a stick)

    Brazil · transitive
  2. to poke (to notify another user)

    Brazil · colloquial · transitive
Where this word comes from

Etymology tree Proto-Tupi-Guarani *kutuk Old Tupi kutuk Proto-Italic *-āzi ▲ Latin -ereinflu. Latin -āre Old Galician-Portuguese -ar Portuguese -ar Portuguese cutucar Adapted borrowing of Old Tupi kutuk (“to pierce”) + -ar. The social media sense is a semantic loan from English poke.

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