pipoca

From Old Tupi pi'poka (“sudden burst of a surface”).

• Hyphenation: pi‧po‧ca

pipoca f (plural pipocas)

1. (cooking) popcorn

   Synonym: pororoca

2. small skin boil

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pústula

3. tapeworm cyst embedded in meat

   Synonyms: canjica, canjiquinha, cisticerco, cisto, pipoquinha

4. (Brazil, colloquial, pathology) avian pox (disease caused by Avipoxvirus)

   Synonyms: bouba aviária, caroço

5. (Brazil, botany) candelabra tree (Senna didymobotrya)

• milho-pipoca

• → Spanish: pipoca

• “pipoca” in iDicionário Aulete.
• “pipoca” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
• “pipoca” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
• “pipoca” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

pipoca

1. inflection of pipocar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Borrowed from Portuguese pipoca (“popcorn”), from Old Tupi pi'poka (“sudden burst of a surface”).

pipoca f (plural pipocas)

1. (Bolivia) popcorn

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:palomita