proportuguese
Por·tu·guese
[pawr-chuh-geez, -gees, pohr-; pawr-chuh-geez, -gees, pohr-] adjective, noun, plural Por·tu·guese. 
tʃəˈgiz, -ˈgis, ˌpoʊr-; ˈpɔr adjective
1.
of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Portugal, its inhabitants, or their language.
noun
2.
a native or inhabitant of Portugal.
3.
a Romance language spoken in Portugal, Brazil, and a few countries of Africa. Abbreviation: Pg, Pg.
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Proportuguese
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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Portuguese (ˌpɔːtjʊˈɡiːz) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n , -guese | |
| 1. | the official language of Portugal, its overseas territories, and Brazil: the native language of approximately 110 million people. It belongs to the Romance group of the Indo-European family and is derived from the Galician dialect of Vulgar Latin |
| 2. | a native, citizen, or inhabitant of Portugal |
| —adj | |
| 3. | relating to, denoting, or characteristic of Portugal, its inhabitants, or their language |
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