Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete
Portuguese - noun obsolete A
Portuguese person
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word Portingal.
Examples
-
Portingal by the way, with the taking, spoyling, and burning of the towne of Faraon there, and marching into the Spanish confines therabouts, &c.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
-
Portingal, I haue sailed through the Leuant seas euery way, and haue bene in all the chiefe Islands within the same sea, as Rhodes,
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
-
Southeast wind, and about euening we were vnder the Island, which is very high lande, and may be seene at the least 14. or 15. miles off, and as we sayled about the North point, there lay three other great Portingal ships, we being not aboue half a mile from them, wherevpon wee helde in the weather and to seawarde Northeast as much as we might.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
-
The 25. of May we discouered the Island of S. Helena, but we could not see the Portingal ship, still sayling with a stiffe
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
-
Portingall tongue, may do them as good seruice, as those that shall be here two yeeres before him: for then we may buy a slaue that can speake this language and the Portingal tongue also, which shall then interprete vnto vs in all your secret doings, not making the
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
-
One of the foure gallies of Portingal escaped very hardly, retiring her selfe, into the hauen.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
-
I remember with lively pleasure my first glance at the classic stream of the “Portingal Captains” and the
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
-
We took from 'em all that we wanted, but we paid for it in good Portingal goold, seein 'that we was no pirates, but good honest traders.
The Cruise of the Nonsuch Buccaneer Harry Collingwood 1886
-
On our way there, avore ever we got so far south as Cape Blanc, we captured a Portingal caravel; pickin 'up another of 'em a little way to the nor'ard of Cape Verde.
The Cruise of the Nonsuch Buccaneer Harry Collingwood 1886
-
Coast, and there we stayed for a matter o 'three months, huntin' blacks and Portingals; goin 'into the rivers in the caravels, landin' parties, attackin 'native villages, and makin' prisoners o 'all the strongest and most likely-lookin' men and women -- with a good sprinklin 'o' childer, too -- and cuttin 'out the Portingal caravels wherever we found' em.
The Cruise of the Nonsuch Buccaneer Harry Collingwood 1886
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.