Portuguese Meaning of knockabout

engraçado

Other Portuguese words related to engraçado

Definitions and Meaning of knockabout in English

Wordnet

knockabout (n)

a sloop with a simplified rig and no bowsprit

Wordnet

knockabout (s)

full of rough and exuberant animal spirits

suitable for rough use

Webster

knockabout (n.)

A small yacht, generally from fifteen to twenty-five feet in length, having a mainsail and a jib. All knockabouts have ballast and either a keel or centerboard. The original type was twenty-one feet in length. The next larger type is called a raceabout.

A knockabout performer or performance.

A man hired on a sheep station to do odd jobs.

Webster

knockabout (a.)

Marked by knocking about or roughness.

Of noisy and violent character.

Characterized by, or suitable for, knocking about, or traveling or wandering hither and thither.

That does odd jobs; -- said of a class of hands or laborers on a sheep station.

FAQs About the word knockabout

engraçado

a sloop with a simplified rig and no bowsprit, full of rough and exuberant animal spirits, suitable for rough useA small yacht, generally from fifteen to twenty

deriva,vaguear,passear,vaguear,vadiar (sobre),morcego,Cruzeiro,flutuar,chutar,Passear

Calmo,composto,controlado,decoroso,digno,imperturbável,silencioso,ordenado,pacífico,plácido

knock up => grávida, knock rummy => Knock rummy, knock over => derrubar, knock out => Nocautear, knock on => bater em,