bica

From bico (“beak”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈbikɐ]

bica f (plural bicas)

1. tip of a spinning top
2. a local variety of sponge cake made with clarified butter, eggs, flour and sugar
3. a low round piece of cornbread

   Synonym: petada

bica

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

• “bica” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “bica” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “bica” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “bica” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “bica” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Borrowed from Lombardic bīga (“pile, heap”); compare Alemannic German Biigi, Byge (“stack”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbi.ka/
• Rhymes: -ika
• Hyphenation: bì‧ca

bica f (plural biche)

1. haystack (or pile of sheaves)
2. (literary, rare) heap, pile, mass

• abbicare

• bica in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• baci, ciba

• Rhymes: -ikɐ
• Hyphenation: bi‧ca

Deverbal from bicar.

According to folk etymology, the coffee sense is an acronym of Beba Isto Com Açúcar (“drink this with sugar”).[1] This etymology appears to have come from a 1998 text, however, and the term most likely came about as a way to differentiate between machine coffee and coffeepot coffee.[2]

bica f (plural bicas)

1. spout, water pipe
2. (Portugal, chiefly Lisbon and Southern Portugal) espresso

   Synonyms: expresso, (Northern Portugal) cimbalino

   • 2012, Abelaira Augusto, NEM SO MAS TAMBEM, Editorial Presença, →ISBN:

     Não me apetece — responde o miúdo. Peço um café(«Uma bica, sim?», mas porquê este inútil «sim»?), e o empregado, afastandose, trôpego, repete a meia voz:«Uma bica!».Talvez parabem memorizaro pedido. Quando regressar, pedirei  ...

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   • 2011, Maria F. Allen, The Routledge Portuguese Bilingual Dictionary (Revised 2014 Edition): Portuguese-English and English-Portuguese, Routledge, →ISBN, page 61:

     Vd: 'bica', 'galão', 'meia', = (EP) jargon for café. cafeicultor m coffee-grower. cafeína f caffeine. cafeteira f coffee pot. cafezal m coffee plantation. cafezinho m ( BR) small black coffee. cáfila f (de camelos) coffle; caravan;2 (fig) rabble, mob.

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3. (Brazil, slang) illegal drug shop

   Synonyms: boca, bocada

4. (Brazil) a type of strong kick with the tip of one's foot striking the adversary

bica

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

• “bica” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
• “bica” in Dicionário Online de Português.
• “bica” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.