pau
pau
[p′aw]
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1 stick, cudgel.
2 timber.
3 wood.
4 beating.
5 bras, pop a) failure in an examination. b) cruzeiro, cruzado, real, one currency unit.
6 bras, vulg penis, cock, dick.
7 paus Cartas clubs: naipe de paus é trunfo / clubs are trumps.Expressõesa dar com pau a great deal.
levar pau bras, pop to flunk an examination.
meter o pau em a) bras, gír to speak ill of. b) to squander.
mostrar com quantos paus se faz uma canoa fig to teach someone a lesson.
pau a pique bras mud wall.
pau para toda obra Jack of all trades.
quebrar um pau bras, pop to have a heated argument.