Portugeezer

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noun

A Portuguese person.

Scrabble 23

Meanings

nounPortugeezer (plural Portugeezers)

plural Portugeezers

  1. UKderogatoryslangsometimesA Portuguese person.

    Here he established trading posts, and in less than a year or so all the Portugeezers were eating chutney on their beefsteaks, and calling it an Indian meal.

    1904, Frank C. Voorhies, Twisted History, G. W. Dillingham Company, page 38
    2 more examples

    For a while Redknapp tried to pair Dowie, who possessed all the speed of a steamroller, with the sublimely fast Portugeezer Hugo Porfirio — Porfirio's permanent expression of bemusement and sometimes downright amazement at his strike partner is still vivid.

    2002, Pete May, West Ham: Irons in the Soul, Mainstream Publishing Company, →ISBN

    This liberating relinquishing of control seemed to chill everybody right out – the Germans took to canoodling and beachcombing, the Portugeezer shared out the last of his biscuits, I spent a couple of hours listening to the waves then idly chatting with the Belgians about Joey Dunlop and Manx Nortons.

    2008, Dan Walsh, Endless Horizon: A Very Messy Motorcycle Journey Around the World, Motorbooks, published 2009, →ISBN, page 25

Origin

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APA

Portugeezer. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Portugeezer

MLA

“Portugeezer.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Portugeezer. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Portugeezer,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Portugeezer.

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