🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

babaca

Pronunciation / Transliteration: ba-ba-ka

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Dickwad/ˈdɪk.wɒd/
nounCEFR C2 (Proficient)Top #15000 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"Não seja babaca."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    An obnoxious, foolish, or contemptible person.

    "He acted like a total dickwad at the party and ruined the mood for everyone."
  2. 2

    An annoying or aggressively unpleasant individual.

    "Tell that dickwad to move his car out of our driveway."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

A compound slang term originating in late 20th-century American English, combining the vulgar slang term 'dick' (referring to the penis or used as a general insult) and 'wad' (referring to a wad of material or semen). Emerging in the 1970s or 1980s, it developed as a pejorative descriptor for an obnoxious or contemptible person.

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