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		ravieira on March 3, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Pika: Making it easier to find, publish, install, ... Terrible for Portuguese speakers, as it sounds like a popular alias for penis

robin_reala on March 4, 2019 [–]

So does ‘cock’ in English, yet it also describes the bird. Seems like pikas are still pikas in Portuguese anyway: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ochotona

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