Polyglot Dictionary

testa-de-ferro

/ˌtɛstadʒiˈfɛxu/

o noun C1

o (masc.) a (fem.)

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

N Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Academic Domain General Tone Neutral

Forms

plural
os testas-de-ferro

Meaning

  1. front man

    Built from testa (forehead) + de (of) + ferro (iron).

    • Era um testa-de-ferro.

      He was a front man.

N Category Person Concreteness Concrete Animacy Animate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Made of

  • testa forehead
  • de of
  • ferro iron

Similar words

Similar in other languages

German

Strohmann

Strohmann is the German word for the same thing — both mean "front man."

Spanish

testaferro

testaferro is the Spanish word for the same thing — both mean "front man."

Practice

1 What does testa-de-ferro mean?

2 Fill the gap: Era um ___-de-ferro.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches testa-de-ferro?

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