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aborrescente

English translation: annoying teenager


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Portuguese term or phrase:aborrescente
English translation:annoying teenager
Entered by: Janisa Antoniazzi
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21:14 Jun 24, 2009
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
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Portuguese term or phrase: aborrescente
Gostaria de sugestões sobre como traduzir ou explicar esse termo, já que na verdade não se trata de uma palavra dicionarizada, mas de uma invenção usada pejorativamente pra se referir aos adolescentes. O termos aparece em uma resenha de um livro sobre prevenção e tratamento do uso de drogas na adolescência.
Janisa Antoniazzi
Brazil
Local time: 21:49
annoying teenager
Explanation:
Cheater! Cheater! WHAT A HELL!! - Page 3 - FH Forum In portuguese, teenager is "adolescente", and annoying is "aborrecedor". Then in Brasil, we say "aborrescente" (funy "word game" concatenating "aborrecedor" ...
forum.wbfree.net/forums/showthread.php?t=28790&page=3
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Marlene Curtis
United States
Local time: 20:49
Grading comment
Obrigada!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +6annoying teenager
Marlene Curtis
4spoiled teenager/dull teen
Patricia Soares
3 +1spoiled brat
Jorge Rodrigues
3someone in the awkward agesilvia367325


Discussion entries: 2





  

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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
someone in the awkward age


Explanation:
I found this in Whatchamacallit? Novo dicionário português-inglês de idiomatismos e coloquialismos.

silvia367325
Local time: 21:49
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +6
annoying teenager


Explanation:
Cheater! Cheater! WHAT A HELL!! - Page 3 - FH Forum In portuguese, teenager is "adolescente", and annoying is "aborrecedor". Then in Brasil, we say "aborrescente" (funy "word game" concatenating "aborrecedor" ...
forum.wbfree.net/forums/showthread.php?t=28790&page=3

Marlene Curtis
United States
Local time: 20:49
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 28
Grading comment
Obrigada!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Amy Duncan: Ha, that's exactly what I was going to say! :o)
19 mins
  -> Thanks! That's how I used to call my boys when they were teenagers...He..He...

agree  Dylan Hope: Nice option - thats how I would translate it too.
30 mins
  -> Thanks!

agree  Maria José Tavares
54 mins
  -> Grata!

agree  Cesar Sanchez: "Peevish Teen" would be an option as well!
1 hr
  -> Grata!

agree  delveneto
10 hrs
  -> Grata!

agree  Isabel Maria Almeida
11 hrs
  -> Grata!
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11 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
spoiled brat


Explanation:
My suggestion.

Jorge Rodrigues
Brazil
Local time: 21:49
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in PortuguesePortuguese

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Paul Dixon: Yes, indeed. Sounds like a good suggestion.
7 mins
  -> Thanks, Paul.
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18 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
spoiled teenager/dull teen


Explanation:
Sugg.

Patricia Soares
Brazil
Local time: 21:49
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
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