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moça — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • adolescent noun A young person who is no longer a child but not yet fully an adult, typically a teenager.
  • bird noun A warm-blooded egg-laying animal with feathers, wings, and a beak.
  • girl noun A female child.
  • lady noun A polite or formal word for a woman, especially one with refined manners.
  • maid noun A woman employed to clean a house or do domestic work.
  • mocha noun A coffee drink made with chocolate, or the chocolate-coffee flavour itself.
  • trip noun A journey, especially for pleasure or a specific purpose.
  • wench noun An old-fashioned or humorous term for a young woman, sometimes used at Renaissance fairs or in historical fiction.

Senses

moça is used for these senses in English:

  • Mocha A city in Taiz Governorate, Yemen.
  • adolescent A person who is in adolescence; someone who has reached puberty but is not yet an adult.
  • girl A female non-human animal, especially, in affectionate address, a female pet, especially a dog.
  • lady A woman to whom the particular homage of a knight was paid; a woman to whom one is devoted or bound.
  • maid A female servant or cleaner (short for maidservant).
  • mocha (countable) A coffee drink with chocolate syrup added, or a serving thereof.
  • trip (colloquial) A period of time in which one experiences drug-induced reverie or hallucinations.
  • wench (archaic, now, dialectal, or, humorous, possibly, offensive) A girl or young woman, especially a buxom or lively one.

adolescent — full definition

  1. noun A young person who is no longer a child but not yet fully an adult, typically a teenager.
  2. adj Relating to the teenage years, or behaving in an immature, teenager-like way.

bird — full definition

  1. noun A warm-blooded egg-laying animal with feathers, wings, and a beak.
  2. noun (informal) An aircraft.
  3. noun (slang, British, dated/informal) A woman, especially a young one.
  4. noun (slang) The rude gesture made by extending the middle finger.

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