maçarico

== Portuguese == === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -iku Hyphenation: ma‧ça‧ri‧co === Etymology 1 === Uncertain. Compare Galician mazarico. ==== Noun ==== maçarico m (plural maçaricos) torch, blowtorch burner sandpiper (any bird of the family Scolopacidae) Synonym: batuíra ibis (any bird of the subfamily Threskiornithinae) (colloquial) any water bird with long, slender legs (Portugal) leveret with a white spot on the forehead (Portugal, informal) novice (Portugal, military, slang) recruit ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Related terms ===== maçarica maçaricão maçariqueiro ===== Descendants ===== → Ambonese Malay: masariku === Etymology 2 === See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. ==== Verb ==== maçarico first-person singular present indicative of maçaricar === Further reading === “maçarico”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “maçarico”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026