Lurde a margarida apareceu

English translation: Lurde, look who showed up!

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Portuguese term or phrase:Lurde a margarida apareceu
English translation:Lurde, look who showed up!
Entered by: Andrea Shah

21:24 Jun 18, 2016
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters / Text messaging
Portuguese term or phrase: Lurde a margarida apareceu
This is a standalone text message from a conversation between two people. Most of the conversation is mundane chat, with some sexual references. This was immediately followed by an image, but I don't have access to the image itself.

I know that "margarida" is literally daisy, but I can't figure out what it means in this context. I also can't figure out what "lurde" means, other than that it seems to be a slang form of address. It's used later in the conversation in the same way.

This is Brazilian Portuguese.
Andrea Shah
United States
Local time: 16:40
Lurded, look who showed up!
Explanation:
Without context (previous), it's pretty hard to guess.
- Lurde is surely a "ignorant" way of calling a person named "Lourdes or Maria de Lourdes".
- Margarida may be an ironic reference to someone who's done something wrong or had disappeared for a while, and now is showing up. It comes from an old song that goes "apareceu a margarida, olê, olê, olá...". So when someone shows up after a long while without anyone knowing where they were, we say "apareceu a margarida".


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Note added at 22 mins (2016-06-18 21:47:11 GMT)
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* Lurde, (no "d")
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Mario Freitas
Brazil
Local time: 17:40
Grading comment
Thank you! I agree, would have loved more context. I did eventually guess that Lurde was a name (or a misspelled version thereof), so that worked out in my favor. Thanks again everyone!
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3 +4Lurded, look who showed up!
Mario Freitas


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21 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +4
Lurded, look who showed up!


Explanation:
Without context (previous), it's pretty hard to guess.
- Lurde is surely a "ignorant" way of calling a person named "Lourdes or Maria de Lourdes".
- Margarida may be an ironic reference to someone who's done something wrong or had disappeared for a while, and now is showing up. It comes from an old song that goes "apareceu a margarida, olê, olê, olá...". So when someone shows up after a long while without anyone knowing where they were, we say "apareceu a margarida".


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Note added at 22 mins (2016-06-18 21:47:11 GMT)
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* Lurde, (no "d")

Mario Freitas
Brazil
Local time: 17:40
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 12
Grading comment
Thank you! I agree, would have loved more context. I did eventually guess that Lurde was a name (or a misspelled version thereof), so that worked out in my favor. Thanks again everyone!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Paula Góes: With Lurde; not sure about “who” as it could be a picture of something...
10 hrs
  -> Tank you, Paula!

agree  Gilmar Fernandes
13 hrs
  -> Thank you, muchcacho!

agree  Bett: bom ! "...look who decided to show up"
1 day 19 hrs
  -> Obrigado, Bett!

agree  gninolps (X)
1 day 20 hrs
  -> Obrigado, Gabriel!
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