Word:
Cafuné (prounounced as kafyooneh)
Status:
Noun
Meaning:
The act of fondling someone's hair
Sentence:
1) I sat with her in silence and cafuné.
2) I love it when my mother cafunés my hair.*
Origin:
Brazilian/Portugese
Synonym:
caress
Fun fact:
* As you can see in the second sentence, I used this word as a verb although it is a noun in the original language. This is one of the conflicts about this word that it is difficult to be exactly translated in English so it is both used as a noun as well as a verb when used in English.
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