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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A Brazilian cocktail typically made of cachaca, crushed limes, and sugar.

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  • noun A traditional Brazilian drink prepared with cachaça, lime juice, sugar and ice

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Brazilian Portuguese, from diminutive of caipira, bumpkin, hick, perhaps from alteration (influenced by curupira, a kind of demon or guardian spirit of the wilderness in Tupí myth and Brazilian folklore) of caipora, demon or guardian spirit of the wilderness somewhat similar to the curupira, from Tupí kaapora : kaa, scrubland + -pora, inhabitant.]

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From Portuguese caipirinha

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