gato-pingado

== Portuguese == === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: ga‧to‧-pin‧ga‧do === Noun === gato-pingado m (plural gatos-pingados) funeral home worker responsible for burial ceremonies Synonym: cangalheiro historically and more specifically, the one who accompanied hearses with a torch (informal) each of a few individuals who attended an event; often used in the phrase meia-dúzia de gatos-pingados (derogatory) useless or worthless person Synonyms: see Thesaurus:zé-ninguém === Further reading === “gato-pingado”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “gato-pingado”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026