encucar

== Portuguese == === Etymology === From en- +‎ cuca (“noggin”) +‎ -ar. === Pronunciation === === Verb === encucar (first-person singular present encuco, first-person singular preterite encuquei, past participle encucado) (transitive) to confuse Synonym: confundir (Brazil, colloquial, intransitive) to convince oneself (that something is the case); to be overly worried or fixated about something; to put into one's own head Synonym: cismar (Brazil, colloquial, intransitive) to be puzzled, stumped or stuck on something ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== encucado === Further reading === “encucar”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2026 “encucar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “encucar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026