bicho-preguiça

== Portuguese == === Etymology === From bicho (“beast, animal”) +‎ preguiça (“sloth, laziness”). === Noun === bicho-preguiça m (plural bichos-preguiça) sloth (any animal in the suborder Folivora) Synonyms: preguiça, aí ==== Usage notes ==== The gender of this Portuguese zoonym is always masculine: when the gender of the being itself must be specified, bicho-preguiça-macho for male and bicho-preguiça-fêmea for female. Here, fêmea is treated as an undeclinable noun and doesn't necessarily need to agree in gender with the referent, but would change to fêmeo if so. === Further reading === “bicho-preguiça”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “bicho-preguiça”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026 “bicho-preguiça”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN