fricote

== French == === Pronunciation === Homophones: fricotent, fricotes === Verb === fricote inflection of fricoter: first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive second-person singular imperative == Portuguese == === Etymology === Uncertain. Possible from French fricot (“coarsely prepared meal”) or English freak out. === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: fri‧co‧te === Noun === fricote m (plural fricotes) (Brazil, colloquial, informal) hissy fit (nervous crisis or hysterical fainting) (Brazil, colloquial, informal) crying; tantrum ==== Derived terms ==== fricoteiro === Further reading === “fricote”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “fricote”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026