Como se diz 'amigo secreto' em inglês?

Papai Noel em inglês é Santa Claus

Mais um ano chegando ao fim. Muitas pessoas têm o costume de se reunir na época de Natal e fazer uma troca de presentes por meio do "amigo secreto".

Você por acaso, sabe como se diz 'amigo secreto' em inglês?

Resposta: Secret Santa.


Leia a difinição do dicionário online Thefreedictionary.com:

Secret Santa is a Western holiday tradition in which members of a group are randomly assigned other members to whom they anonymously give a gift. Often practiced in workplaces, or amongst large families, participation in it is usually voluntary. It offers a way for many people to give and receive a gift at low cost to those involved.

The ritual is known as Secret Santa in the United States, Canada and Great Britain but Kris Kindle (Christkindl) in Ireland and parts of the Commonwealth; both terms are acceptable and used in Australia or New Zealand. All of these names derive from traditional Christmas gift-bringers: the US version is named after Santa Claus while Kris Kindle and Kris Kringle are corruptions of the original name of the German gift-bringer Christkindl, which meand the 'Child Jesus' and also means 'gift' in the German language, (in Britain the traditional gift-bringer is Father Christmas). The term Secret Santa can refer to the ritual itself, or any of the people participating. In Brazil, it is called Amigo Secreto or Amigo oculto (Secret Friend) and Amigo Invisible (Invisible Friend) in the Spanish Latin America, and Spain.




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Guilherme.