cuspido e escarrado

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Etymology

Literally, “spat and expectorated”.

Compare English spitting image, Galician cuspido (literally “spat”) and French tout craché (literally “totally spat”), which also equate likeness to spit.

Phrase

cuspido e escarrado

  1. spitting image
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