May 27, 2007 22:53
16 yrs ago
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Portuguese term

Quando os animais estão no cio... assim como as mulheres no cio...

May offend Portuguese to English Other General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters vocabulary
Estar no cio... Como traduzo isso para o inglês?

Proposed translations

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to be in heat

Sugg.

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Note added at 10 mins (2007-05-27 23:04:24 GMT)
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in heat: For a female animal (in this case, a dog), to be in heat (also known as estrus) is to be in a state of sexual excitement when she will accept mating from a male.
Peer comment(s):

agree Marcella S.
2 hrs
obrigado
agree Cristina Santos
15 hrs
obrigado
agree Erik Bry : yes, when the animals are in heat...
20 hrs
thanks
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Selected automatically based on peer agreement."
5 mins

horny

my answer can be potentially offensive too.
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6 hrs

Just as animals get in heat, women can get horny too

You cannot mix the two, a woman would not say that she was in heat, and you would not refer to animals as being horny, unless you were intentionally mixing metaphors
Example sentence:

dogs get in heat and humans get horny

Peer comment(s):

agree Susy Ordaz : "are" in heat
38 mins
agree claudia123
13 hrs
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