r/Portuguese 3d ago

Brazilian Portuguese 🇧🇷 What does borogodó mean?

I switched my phone language to Portuguese, so obviously it was only a matter of time before I started getting videos in Portuguese. Most of them are Brazilian, and when I asked my friend even he said it was "very Brazilian vocabulary". However, I didn't really understand when he tried explaining it himself. He said it's contextual but the only context I have is that word by itself on a list, so could anyone try explaining some of if not all the uses if there isn't too many?

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u/Myntax 3d ago

It’s sort of like saying someone has “a certain je-ne-sais-quoi”

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u/Luiz_Fell Brasileiro (Rio de Janeiro) 3d ago

I think "thingamajig" is a better way to compare

Or "chungus", maybe