• T4V0@lemmy.pt
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    1 year ago

    And as far as anyone could find out it’s not actually a Portuguese word. Just casual generational antisemitism.🤷‍♂️

    Maybe it sounds like “lavagem”, which actually means pig slop. Basically food or food scraps that spoiled or that’s about to spoil and fed to pigs.

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      1 year ago

      That would have been a possibility. But they described it as being spelled exactly lavosh. So it’s a play on words/meanings at some level.

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        But they described it as being spelled exactly lavosh.

        Odd, in portuguese lavosh is written as lavash. Did they spell it phonetically or letter by letter?