jabot

Possibly related to gaver (“to force-feed”), or from Vulgar Latin *gaba (“maw, mullet”). Or, possibly a Celtic borrowing (compare Irish gob (“beak”), Gaulish *gobbos (“mouth”)).


cul

Inherited from Middle French cul, from Old French cul, from Latin cūlus, from Proto-Indo-European *kuH-l-, zero-grade without s-mobile form of *(s)kewH- (“to cover”).

le beurre, l’argent du beurre et le cul de la crémière

En effet, le prince Vibescu marchait, comme on croit à Bucharest que marchent les Parisiens ; c’est-à-dire à tous petits pas pressés et en tortillant le cul.

2008 [1907], Guillaume Apollinaire, chapter I, in Alexis Lykiard, transl., Les Onze mille verges [The Eleven Thousand Rods] (fiction):

Indeed, Prince Vibescu used to walk as Bucharest folk believe Parisians walk, that's to say with rapid little footsteps and wriggling his arse.

Ce fut un étalage admirable de culs de toutes les nationalités, car ce bordel modèle possédait des putains de toutes races. Le cul en forme de poire de la Frisonne contrastait avec les culs rebondis des Parisiennes, les fesses merveilleuses des Anglaises, les postérieurs carrés des Scandinaves et les culs tombants des Catalanes.

1967 [1907], Guillaume Apollinaire, chapter VI, in David B. Lewis + Wiktionary, transl., Les Onze mille verges [Debauched Hospodar] (fiction):

This was an admirable display of arses of all nationalities, as this model whorehouse held hookers of all races. The Frisian girl’s pear-shaped arse contrasted with the plump Parisians’, with the marvelous buttocks of the English, the square behinds of the Scandinavians, and the plunging arses of the Catalans.

Le cul mène le monde.

sexual intercourse
sexual intercourse#English

Ils ont du cul.

(informal, France) good luck or good fortune

(France, slang) roach (the butt of a marijuana cigarette)


trompe

From Middle French trompe, from Old French trompe, from Frankish *trumpa, *trumba (“trumpet”), ultimately from an imitative Germanic word akin to Old Dutch drumba, trumba (“trumpet, horn”), Old High German trumba, trumpa, Old Norse trumba. Doublet of trombe.

onomatopoeic

imitative

first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive


raisin

Inherited from Old French raisin, from Late Latin racīmus, from Latin racēmus. Doublet of racème, a borrowing.


bois

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

nonlemma

first/second-person singular present indicative


ouïe

Deverbal of ouïr, corresponding to Latin audīta < audītus. Compare Occitan ausida, Catalan oïda, Spanish oído, Portuguese ouvido, Italian udito, Romansch udida, Friulian uldide.


blanquette

Borrowed from Provençal blanqueto, a diminutive of blanc (“white”), derived, through early Medieval Latin blancus, from Frankish *blank (“gleaming, white, blinding”), from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“white, bright, blinding”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhleg- (“to shine”). Equivalent to blanc (“white”) + -ette (feminine diminutive suffix). Doublet of blanchette.

af

(countable or uncountable) sparkling white wine from Languedoc made from white grapes of the "mauzac" variety


kif

Borrowed from Moroccan Arabic كيف (kīf), from Arabic كَيْف (kayf, “opiate”).


garrot

desctree

→ Spanish: garrote
→ San Juan Atzingo Popoloca: caroti

From Provençal garra (“leg”) (see jarret) + the suffix -ot.


tabac

des plantations de tabac

(uncountable, botany) tobacco (any plant of the genus Nicotiana)

du tabac blond

Pour la pipe, quels sont tes tabacs préférés ?

tobacco (leaves of certain varieties of the plant cultivated and harvested)

J’ai pris une résolution : demain, j’arrête le tabac.

I have made a decision: tomorrow I'm quitting smoking.

(uncountable, with le) smoking, nicotine addiction

Il s’engouffra dans un tabac et en sortit avec un briquet.

He rushed into a tobacconist's and came out with a lighter.

tobacconist (shop where tobacco is sold)

Le supermarché est fermé à cette heure-ci, il faudra acheter des bières dans un tabac.

The supermarket is closed at this time; you will have to buy beer in a corner shop.


tabac

Voyez quel air martial respire ce vénérable membre de la Garde nationale! Avec son habit tabac, son sabre et sa giberne en bandoulière, son fusil sur l’épaule […] il va affronter les ennemis […] de la tranquillité publique.

1836, Honoré de Balzac, Œuvres diverses, volume 1:

See what martial air this venerable member of the National Guard breathes! With his tobacco-coloured coat, his sword and his pouch on a bandolier, his gun on his shoulder […] he will face the enemies […] of public peace.


vigne

Inherited from Middle French vigne, from Old French vigne, from Vulgar Latin vinia, from Latin vīnea (“vines in a vineyard”), from vīneus (“related to wine”), derived from vīnum (“wine”), from Proto-Italic *wīnom, from Proto-Indo-European *wóyh₁nom (“vine, wine”).


corbeau

fr-noun

corbeau m (plural corbeaux, feminine corbelle)

→ English: corbeau

Inherited from Middle French corbeau m, from Old French corbel m, itself either a diminutive of corp m (“raven”), or from a Late Latin corbellus, corvellus m, from Latin corvus m (Vulgar Latin variant *corbus m).

(historical) corvus (grappling hook used by the Romans in naval warfare)

(viticulture) douce noir (a variety of grape)


écaille

Inherited from Middle French escaille, from Old French escaille (“scale”), from Frankish *skallija (“scale, shell”), from Proto-Germanic *skaljō (“scale, shell, husk”) ( > English shell), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to cut, part, sunder, split, divide”).
Compare Italian scaglia. Doublet of écale.


cerque

From New Latin cercus, from Ancient Greek κέρκος (kérkos, “tail”).


dard

→ Italian: dardo

→ Portuguese: dardo

→ Spanish: dardo

Via Old French dart, from Frankish *daroth (compare Old High German tart, Old Norse darradr).


feuillet

Diminutive of Old French feuil (with -et), from Latin folia.


viognier

Unknown. Possibly named after the French city of Vienne, where it is grown, or from the Roman pronunciation of Latin via Gehennae (“road to Hell”).


pétard

→ Italian: petardo

→ Spanish: petardo

Ce dimanche 12 novembre, le club allemand d’Hoffenheim a publié un communiqué pour condamner le lancer de pétard ayant causé l’interruption pendant sept minutes de la rencontre face à Augbsbourg, à l’occasion de la 11e journée de Bundesliga (1-1).

2023 November 12, “Football. Hoffenheim réagit au lancer de pétard qui a causé l’interruption du match à Augsbourg”, in Ouest France:

This Sunday, November 12, the German club Hoffenheim published a press release to condemn the throwing of a firecracker which caused the interruption for seven minutes of the match against Augsburg, on the occasion of the 11th day of the Bundesliga (1-1).

Je fume pas mal de pétards.

(attributive, of colors) bright; shiny; eyecatching


épucer

épucer (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
épuçant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
épucé (participle past)
épuce (first-person indicative present singular)
épuces (indicative present second-person singular)
épuce (indicative present singular third-person)
épuçons (first-person indicative plural present)
épucez (indicative plural present second-person)
épucent (indicative plural present third-person)
épuçais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
épuçais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
épuçait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
épucions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
épuciez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
épuçaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
épuçai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
épuças (historic indicative past second-person singular)
épuça (historic indicative past singular third-person)
épuçâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
épuçâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
épucèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
épucerai (first-person future indicative singular)
épuceras (future indicative second-person singular)
épucera (future indicative singular third-person)
épucerons (first-person future indicative plural)
épucerez (future indicative plural second-person)
épuceront (future indicative plural third-person)
épucerais (conditional first-person singular)
épucerais (conditional second-person singular)
épucerait (conditional singular third-person)
épucerions (conditional first-person plural)
épuceriez (conditional plural second-person)
épuceraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
épuce (first-person present singular subjunctive)
épuces (present second-person singular subjunctive)
épuce (present singular subjunctive third-person)
épucions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
épuciez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
épucent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
épuçasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
épuçasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
épuçât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
épuçassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
épuçassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
épuçassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
épuce (imperative second-person singular)
épuçons (first-person imperative plural)
épucez (imperative plural second-person)

From é- + puce + -er. Compare Spanish espulgar.

(veterinary medicine) to deflea (remove fleas from an animal)


dature

Alternative form of datura (“datura”) (Datura)


datura

Trésor de la langue française informatisé

Borrowed from Portuguese, ultimately from Sanskrit धत्तूर (dhattūra). Littré's Dictionnaire de la langue française states it comes from Arabic and ultimately from Persian.

dature inoffensive
dature inoffensive#French

Datura innoxia
Datura innoxia#Translingual

Delachaux et Niestlé
w:fr:Delachaux et Niestlé

(Réunion) Synonym of dature inoffensive (Datura innoxia)


stramonium

(botany) Alternative form of stramoine (“stramonium”)


poitrail

Originally poitral, with change of suffix after -ail, from Latin pectoralis. Doublet of pectoral.


aiguillon

Inherited from Old French aguillon, aguillun, awillon, from Early Medieval Latin acūleōnem. Reshaped according to aiguille (“needle”).


nageoire caudale

fr-noun

nageoire caudale f (plural nageoires caudales)


pétun

From Old Tupi petigma [pe.'tɨ.ma], meaning "smoking herb", according to the VLB.


caillette

From caille (“quail”) + -ette, because of the color of certain varieties of the bird.


tamien

Mental de charbonneur, j’me fais un gros tamien, et j’me poste à 10 heures

2022 August 15, “Vida” (1:57 from the start), Zitoune (lyrics):

Mindset of a coaler, I make myself a big spliff, then I stand myself up for 10 hours


Chaouch

Le Chaouch est répandu sur toutes les côtes de la Méditerranée, depuis l’Algérie et l’Égypte jusqu’à l’Adriatique, mais il est le plus particulièrement cultivé en Turquie d’Europe, en Turquie d’Asie, en Grèce et en Crimée.

1901, Étienne Salomon, R. Salomon, “Chaouch”, in Pierre Viala, editor, Ampélographie, Traité général de viticulture, volume 2, Paris: Masson et cie, →OCLC, page 200:

(agriculture) Chaouch (“a cultivar of vinifera grape”)


colombard

Comme ce vin, par exemple, issu de trois cépages typiques de la région, colombard, sauvignon et gros manseng.

2015 September 16, “Notre sélection de vins du Sud-Ouest 3,40 à 8,99 euros”, in Le Monde:

a white grape variety from Charentes; a wine made from these grapes


andouiller

Inherited from Old French andoillee, antoillier. Cognate of English antler.

(hunting) tine (a small horn that grows in the antlers of a deer, buck, or roe deer)


stramoine

Datura stramonium
Datura stramonium#Translingual


bréchet

Inherited from Middle French brechet, brichet, bruchet, from Middle English brusket (whence modern English brisket), from Old Danish bryske, from Old Norse brjósk, from Proto-Germanic *breuską, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrews- (“to break”). Cognate with German Brausche (“bruise, bump”).


manoque

époularder

to pull apart the tobacco leaves from the roll to cleanse them

manoquage

manoquer (“to put the tobacco into rolls”)


herbe au diable

fr-noun

herbe au diable f (plural herbes au diable)

Synonym of stramoine (“jimsonweed”) (Datura stramonium)


double-cloche

double-cloche f (plural doubles-cloches)


herbe du diable

herbe du diable f (plural herbes du diable)


pomme épineuse

pomme épineuse f (plural pommes épineuses)


datura fastueux

datura fastueux m (plural daturas fastueux)


double cloche

double cloche f (plural doubles cloches)


pomme épineuse d'Égypte

pomme épineuse d’Égypte f (plural pommes épineuses d’Égypte)

pomme épineuse d’ Égypte (canonical feminine)
pommes épineuses d’Égypte (plural)


pétou

J’rallume le pétou en pacha (pas ça)

2023 July 14, Larry (lyrics and music), “EN PÉPÉ 5”, 0:42:


dature inoffensive

dature inoffensive f (plural datures inoffensives)


herbe à Sitarane

herbe à Sitarane f (plural herbes à Sitarane)

After Sitarane, a famous thief and murderer from Réunion.

Synonym of dature inoffensive (Datura innoxia Mill.)