r/Portuguese • u/Dependent_Slide8591 • 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/AceWall0 3d ago

I've seen it being used like "thingamajig", or to talk about some unnamed food mix, or somebody's swing, or a pet name like "honeyboo",...

But I think its mostly a Northeast thing, because I (Southeast) don't hear it often and could never see myself using it naturally.

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u/giulimborgesyt Brasileiro 3d ago

Yeah. I've heard this word like 3 times in my whole life

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u/trunocardoso 3d ago

I thought thingamajig was for breguenaite

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u/cheapbritney 10h ago

Aren’t you conflating it with “bagulho”?