teu cabeça

Macanese

Alternative forms
  • (rare) tua cabeça

Etymology

Calque of Cantonese 你個頭／你个头 (nei5 go3 tau4, literally “your head”).

Phrase

teu cabeça (informal, colloquial)

  1. expression used to disagree with the speaker: my ass! my arse! nonsense!
    "Sopa salgado, é n'é?" "Salgado, teu cabeça! Assim bom."
    "The soup is too salty, isn't it?" "Salty my ass! It's good."

Usage notes
  • tua cabeça would be the grammatically correct gender-agreeing form in Portuguese, however this form in particular is rarer than the usage with teu[1] (a masculine possessive pronoun).

References
  1. Batalha, Graciete Nogueira (1988) “cabeça”, in Glossário do dialecto macaense: notas linguísticas, etnográficas e folclóricas [Glossary of the Macanese dialect: linguistic, ethnographic and folkloric notes], Macau: Instituto Cultural de Macau, page 331

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