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Carioca slang. Part 2

Now we will continue with the most beautiful cariocas.




 

Check part 1 here.




 

Beleza

beauty can be used as a question or as a statement: is everything beauty? Yes, all beauty. Or: Beleeeza ??? Beauty!

and simply means asking someone else if it’s ok, if it’s ok, and answering beauty means it’s ok. simple as that: D




 

Mermão

Mermão is an abbreviation of my brother. It’s usually used when you’re writing something amazing for someone, like: Merma, you don’t know how the sea was today. Mermon is also used When two people are kind of annoyed with each other and one of them asks: What was mermon ?? Which basically means: what’s the matter? outrageously rs

 




Coé

Coe is also used when you meet a person, go is used interrogatively, short for “what is it?” Which basically means “how are you?”

A widely used expression is “coé minor” ??

 




Menor

smaller means child or someone younger. It is often used in ways that diminish each other. like: you’re not an adult, you’re a kid. but it is also used affectionately and among friends.

 




Já é

It is nothing more than a kind of “ok”. someone asks you a question like, let’s go in such a place. And you respond with the “already is”. It is simply a confirmation of something that the proposal to be done immediately or later. or simply as confirmation of some statement, but it usually has to do with accepting a proposition, an action. eg can you go solve such a thing for me? and you answer with the “yes, I do”

 




bolado

Getting fed up is getting upset, or frustrated. You usually get crazy when your team loses, or when the girl you want to dump, or when someone cheats on you. If you see someone upset you can ask: “Is it ok?”

 




Brother

Brother é uma palavra que todo mundo Lembra daquela música do Rappa: “Oh oh oh oh oh, my brother”.  brother simplesmente significa irmão, amigo. tem gente que fala brother o tempo inteiro. Fala tu brother??  é uma boa forma de cumprimentar um amigo.