"-ouze" meaning in French

See -ouze in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Suffix

IPA: /uz/ Audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-LoquaxFR--ouze.wav
Etymology: Apparently representing an old form of the feminine suffix -euse, preserved in slang. Head templates: {{head|fr|suffix|||||g=|g2=|head=|sort=}} -ouze, {{fr-suffix}} -ouze
  1. forms colloquial or slang feminine forms of nouns Tags: morpheme Synonyms: -ouse, -ouz
    Sense id: en--ouze-fr-suffix-PL0tYAAB Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Alternative forms

{
  "etymology_text": "Apparently representing an old form of the feminine suffix -euse, preserved in slang.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "suffix",
        "3": "",
        "4": "",
        "5": "",
        "6": "",
        "g": "",
        "g2": "",
        "head": "",
        "sort": ""
      },
      "expansion": "-ouze",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "-ouze",
      "name": "fr-suffix"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "suffix",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "French entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "bague (“ring”) + -ouze → bagouze (“large ring”) (slang)"
        },
        {
          "text": "barbe (“beard”) + -ouze → barbouze (“thug”) (slang)"
        },
        {
          "text": "bière (“beer”) + -ouze → binouze (“(glass of) beer”) (informal)"
        },
        {
          "text": "centrale (“center”) + -ouze → centrouze (“central prison house”) (slang)"
        },
        {
          "text": "cravate (“tie (garment worn around the neck)”) + -ouze → cravetouze (“tie”) (slang)"
        },
        {
          "text": "feuille (“leaf”) + -ouze → fouillouze (“pocket (of a garment)”) (obsolete)"
        },
        {
          "text": "FLN (“FLN (National Liberation Front, in Algeria)”) + -ouze → fellouze (“guerrilla soldier in Algeria”) (pejorative)"
        },
        {
          "text": "gamelle (“portable pot or pan”) + -ouze → galetouze, galtouze (“dish”) (slang)"
        },
        {
          "text": "partie (“game, match”) + -ouze → partouze (“orgy”)"
        },
        {
          "text": "perle (“pearl”) + -ouze → perlouze (“pearl; fart”) (slang)"
        },
        {
          "text": "piqure (“prick, injection”) + -ouze → piquouze (“prick, hit (of heroin)”) (slang)"
        },
        {
          "text": "tante (“aunt”) + -ouze → tantouze (“queer, homo”) (informal, pejorative)"
        },
        {
          "text": "valise (“suitcase”) + -ouze → valtouze (“suitcase”) (informal)"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "forms colloquial or slang feminine forms of nouns"
      ],
      "id": "en--ouze-fr-suffix-PL0tYAAB",
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "-ouse"
        },
        {
          "word": "-ouz"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "morpheme"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/uz/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q150 (fra)-LoquaxFR--ouze.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/ba/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-LoquaxFR--ouze.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-LoquaxFR--ouze.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/ba/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-LoquaxFR--ouze.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-LoquaxFR--ouze.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "-ouze"
}
{
  "etymology_text": "Apparently representing an old form of the feminine suffix -euse, preserved in slang.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "suffix",
        "3": "",
        "4": "",
        "5": "",
        "6": "",
        "g": "",
        "g2": "",
        "head": "",
        "sort": ""
      },
      "expansion": "-ouze",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "-ouze",
      "name": "fr-suffix"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "suffix",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "French 1-syllable words",
        "French entries with incorrect language header",
        "French lemmas",
        "French suffixes",
        "French terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "bague (“ring”) + -ouze → bagouze (“large ring”) (slang)"
        },
        {
          "text": "barbe (“beard”) + -ouze → barbouze (“thug”) (slang)"
        },
        {
          "text": "bière (“beer”) + -ouze → binouze (“(glass of) beer”) (informal)"
        },
        {
          "text": "centrale (“center”) + -ouze → centrouze (“central prison house”) (slang)"
        },
        {
          "text": "cravate (“tie (garment worn around the neck)”) + -ouze → cravetouze (“tie”) (slang)"
        },
        {
          "text": "feuille (“leaf”) + -ouze → fouillouze (“pocket (of a garment)”) (obsolete)"
        },
        {
          "text": "FLN (“FLN (National Liberation Front, in Algeria)”) + -ouze → fellouze (“guerrilla soldier in Algeria”) (pejorative)"
        },
        {
          "text": "gamelle (“portable pot or pan”) + -ouze → galetouze, galtouze (“dish”) (slang)"
        },
        {
          "text": "partie (“game, match”) + -ouze → partouze (“orgy”)"
        },
        {
          "text": "perle (“pearl”) + -ouze → perlouze (“pearl; fart”) (slang)"
        },
        {
          "text": "piqure (“prick, injection”) + -ouze → piquouze (“prick, hit (of heroin)”) (slang)"
        },
        {
          "text": "tante (“aunt”) + -ouze → tantouze (“queer, homo”) (informal, pejorative)"
        },
        {
          "text": "valise (“suitcase”) + -ouze → valtouze (“suitcase”) (informal)"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "forms colloquial or slang feminine forms of nouns"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "morpheme"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/uz/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q150 (fra)-LoquaxFR--ouze.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/ba/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-LoquaxFR--ouze.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-LoquaxFR--ouze.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/ba/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-LoquaxFR--ouze.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-LoquaxFR--ouze.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "-ouse"
    },
    {
      "word": "-ouz"
    }
  ],
  "word": "-ouze"
}

Download raw JSONL data for -ouze meaning in French (2.3kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable French dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-02-08 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-02-02 using wiktextract (f90d964 and 9dbd323). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.