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Portuguee U.S.|pɔətjʊˈgiː|
Also Portagee, Portugee.
Repr. a spurious ‘singular’ form of Portuguese a. and n., this being regarded as a plural.
1830J. F. Cooper Water Witch II. vii. 197 It being altogether unreasonable to suppose that a Portuguee should do what an Englishman had not yet thought of doing. 1860Atlantic Monthly Dec. 735/1 Somehaow I caän't help mistrustin' them Portagee-lookin' fellahs. 1878Besant & Rice Celia's Arb. xxviii, A Portugee, as every sailor knows, is a Portugee by birth. 1880Harper's Mag. Sept. 505/1 At one place was a ‘Portugee’ of the Western Islands. 1915C. C. Martindale In God's Army I. 181 China to a Portuguee was a forbidden land. 1975J. Gores Hammett iii. 28 ‘Keep your eye on the Portagee,’ said Hammett. But Dancing Frankie..put the Portuguese boy on the canvas for a six count with a roundhouse right that wasn't fooling. |