gaforina

== Portuguese == === Etymology === From Elisabetta Gafforini, Italian opera singer who performed in Lisbon in the early 19th century and had a thick blonde mane in apparent disarray. === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: ga‧fo‧ri‧na === Noun === gaforina f (plural gaforinas) (informal) shag (rough, massed hair) Synonym: guedelha (informal) quiff (hairstyle whereby the forelock is brushed and/or gelled upward) Synonym: topete === Further reading === “gaforina”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “gaforina”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026