alcaguete

== Portuguese == === Alternative forms === alcagüete (pre-1990 spelling) === Etymology 1 === Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic القواد (al-qawwád), from Arabic قَوَّاد (qawwād). Cognate with Spanish alcahuete. ==== Pronunciation ==== === Etymology 2 === ==== Pronunciation ==== ==== Noun ==== alcaguete m (plural alcaguetes) (Brazil, colloquial) grass; informer; snitch Synonym: dedo-duro === Etymology 3 === ==== Verb ==== alcaguete inflection of alcaguetar: first/third-person singular present subjunctive third-person singular imperative === Further reading === “alcaguete”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “alcaguete”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026