tijolo

• tijollo, tejolo (obsolete)

Borrowed from Spanish tejuelo, from tejo.[1]

• (Porto) IPA^(key): [tiˈʒwɐ.lu]
• Rhymes: -olu
• Hyphenation: ti‧jo‧lo

tijolo m (plural tijolos, metaphonic)

1. brick
   1. building block of mud, clay etc.
   2. considered collectively as a building material

      casa de tijolo

      brick house

   3. (usually humorous, figurative) anything brickshaped

      tijolo de marmelada

      brick of quince bread

2. (printing, publishing) colophon

   Synonym: colofão

3. (informal, humorous, figurative) doorstop (large book)

   Synonyms: alfarrábio, (Brazil) calhamaço

4. (Brazil, typography) a compact composition with no lead paragraph and few stops

   Synonym: (Brazil) catatau

5. (Brazil, informal) wall of text

   Synonym: (Portugal) testamento

6. (Brazil, soccer, informal) a strong shot that is hard to catch

   Synonyms: tijolada, pelotaço, bomba

7. (São Paulo, slang, obsolete) dating, relationship

tijolo m or f (plural tijolos)

1. brick, brick red (brownish-red colour)

For quotations using this term, see Citations:tijolo.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• Hyphenation: ti‧jo‧lo

tijolo

1. first-person singular present indicative of tijolar

• tijolo on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt
• “tijolo” in iDicionário Aulete.
• “tijolo” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
• “tijolo” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.