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abusado
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Portuguese
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adjective
abusado (feminine abusada, masculine plural abusados, feminine plural abusadas)
- (Brazil, informal) cheeky, sassy, impertinent, meddlesome
- Synonym: atrevido
Participle
abusado (feminine abusada, masculine plural abusados, feminine plural abusadas)
- past participle of abusar
Further reading
- “abusado”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
- “abusado”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
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Spanish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Participle
abusado (feminine abusada, masculine plural abusados, feminine plural abusadas)
- past participle of abusar
Etymology 2
From aguzado (“sharp”), influenced by abusar.
Adjective
abusado (feminine abusada, masculine plural abusados, feminine plural abusadas)
Further reading
- “abusado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
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Tagalog
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish abusado (“abused”). By surface analysis, abuso + -ado.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ʔabuˈsado/ [ʔɐ.bʊˈsaː.d̪o]
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -ado
- Syllabification: a‧bu‧sa‧do
Adjective
abusado (feminine abusada, Baybayin spelling ᜀᜊᜓᜐᜇᜓ)
- abusive
- Synonyms: mapagmalabis, mapagsamantala, mapang-api, (male) abusero, (female) abusera, mapang-abuso, abusibo
Related terms
Further reading
- “abusado”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2025
- “abusado”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018.
- Cuadrado Muñiz, Adolfo (1972), Hispanismos en el tagalo: diccionario de vocablos de origen español vigentes en esta lengua filipina, Madrid: Oficina de Educación Iberoamericana, page 5
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