[NOTE: these terms are weaponized language, & meant to give offense. Which is the whole & compleat & entire & total point of insult & invective, obscenity & blasphemy, & other political speech.]
BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE: Trubufu ‡
‡) Lit. “ugly & fat black woman...” = Afro-Brazilian obstetric patient [Not usually considered particularly racist in Brazil, where a vast majority, 70—75%, of the population is mulatto... the operative insults here are “ugly & fat” ]
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