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bagulho — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • pomace noun The pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil.
  • thingy noun An informal word for an object whose name the speaker can't recall or doesn't need to state.
  • whatchamacallit noun An informal word for an object whose name you can't remember or don't know.

Senses

bagulho is used for these senses in English:

  • pomace The pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil.
  • thingy (informal) A thing (used to refer to something vaguely or when one cannot recall or does not wish to mention its name).
  • whatchamacallit (slang) A metasyntactic term used for any object whose actual name the speaker does not know or cannot remember; a doodad, gizmo, thingamajig, thingy.

pomace — full definition

  1. noun The pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil.
  2. noun Such residue from apples used in the process of cidermaking; also, a mass of crushed apples before the juice is pressed out.
  3. noun Such residue from grapes used in winemaking.
  4. noun Such residue (especially castor bean cake or fish scrap) used as fertilizer.

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