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title: "Reply to: Brazilian affection/cuddling vocabulary"
url: https://perrotta.dev/2026/03/reply-to-brazilian-affection/cuddling-vocabulary/
last_updated: 2026-03-02
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I love this kind of post! It's relatively uncommon to find this genre nowadays.

It's a comprehensive and high-quality collection of Brazilian Portuguese words
with explanations in English that are quite decent (and somewhat nostalgic for
me).

[See
also](https://wordsmith.social/elilla/brazilian-casual-relationship-vocabulary).

A few minor additions to both posts, from my cultural background:

- _Arroz_: an opportunistic _Grude_, waiting for the perfect moment to strike.
- _Lance_: synonym with _Rolo_.
- _Xaveco_: flirting.

If English is the [hottest new
programming](https://xcancel.com/karpathy/status/1617979122625712128)
[language](https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-programming-language-after-kotlin),
Brazilian Portuguese is THE best love language.