pegador

English

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Etymology

From Spanish pegador, from pegar (“to stick”).

Noun

pegador (plural pegadors)

  1. (zoology, dated) A species of remora (Echeneis naucrates).

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for pegador in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Portuguese

Noun

pegador m (plural pegadores, feminine pegadora, feminine plural pegadoras)

  1. catcher (someone who catches)
  2. spaghetti tongs
  3. tag (game in which a child attempts to catch other children)
    Synonym: pega-pega
  4. remora (any of various elongated fish from the family Echeneidae)
    Synonym: rémora

Spanish

Noun

pegador m (plural pegadores)

  1. fighter; boxer

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