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Portugoose

Portugoose noun: a Portuguese person.

Noun

Portugoose (plural Portugeese)

  1. (derogatory, ethnic, informal, nonstandard, offensive, slur) A Portuguese person.
    • A handy man, that assistant, Wynn. He was a half-bred 'Portugoose,' as they say in Bombay, with the name of Vasque d'Almeydo, and I understood that he'd had some training.1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC

Forms of Portugoose

pluralPortugeese

Origin of Portugoose

Misrepresentation of Portuguese as following the same pattern as goose → geese.

Questions about Portugoose

What does Portugoose mean?
Portugoose means a Portuguese person.
What part of speech is Portugoose?
Portugoose is a noun.
What is the plural of Portugoose?
The plural of Portugoose is Portugeese.

Words near Portugoose in the dictionary

  1. Portugees
  2. Portugeese
  3. Portugeezer
  4. Portugeezers
  5. Portugese
  6. Portugoose
  7. Portugual
  8. Portugueese
  9. Portuguesa
  10. Portuguese
  11. Portuguese Congo

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Portugoose (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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