"moue" meaning in French

See moue in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /mu/ Forms: moues [plural]
Etymology: Inherited from Middle French moue, from Old French moe (“grimace”), from Frankish *mauwa (“pout, protruding lip”). Akin to Middle Dutch mouwe (“protruding lip”). Etymology templates: {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|fr|frm|moue|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Middle French moue, {{inh+|fr|frm|moue}} Inherited from Middle French moue, {{inh|fr|fro|moe||grimace}} Old French moe (“grimace”), {{der|fr|frk|*mauwu|*mauwa|t=pout, protruding lip}} Frankish *mauwa (“pout, protruding lip”), {{cog|dum|mouwe||protruding lip}} Middle Dutch mouwe (“protruding lip”) Head templates: {{fr-noun|f}} moue f (plural moues)
  1. pout, moue Tags: feminine Derived forms: faire la moue

Inflected forms

{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "moue",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ English: moue",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ English: moue"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Inherited"
      },
      "expansion": "Inherited",
      "name": "glossary"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "frm",
        "3": "moue",
        "4": "",
        "5": "",
        "g": "",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "id": "",
        "lit": "",
        "nocat": "",
        "pos": "",
        "sc": "",
        "sort": "",
        "tr": "",
        "ts": ""
      },
      "expansion": "Middle French moue",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "frm",
        "3": "moue"
      },
      "expansion": "Inherited from Middle French moue",
      "name": "inh+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "fro",
        "3": "moe",
        "4": "",
        "5": "grimace"
      },
      "expansion": "Old French moe (“grimace”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "frk",
        "3": "*mauwu",
        "4": "*mauwa",
        "t": "pout, protruding lip"
      },
      "expansion": "Frankish *mauwa (“pout, protruding lip”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "dum",
        "2": "mouwe",
        "3": "",
        "4": "protruding lip"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle Dutch mouwe (“protruding lip”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Inherited from Middle French moue, from Old French moe (“grimace”), from Frankish *mauwa (“pout, protruding lip”). Akin to Middle Dutch mouwe (“protruding lip”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "moues",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f"
      },
      "expansion": "moue f (plural moues)",
      "name": "fr-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "French entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 5 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "fr",
          "name": "Facial expressions",
          "orig": "fr:Facial expressions",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "faire la moue"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_english_offsets": [
            [
              131,
              135
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              139,
              143
            ]
          ],
          "english": "‘What about my heart?’ She smiled at me and leant over the table. ‘Isn't your heart worn out?’ she replied, with a little doubtful pout.",
          "ref": "1999, Anna Gavalda, “Ambre”, in Je voudrais que quelqu'un m'attende quelque part, →ISBN:",
          "text": "– Et mon cœur ? Elle m'a souri et s'est penchée au-dessus de la table. — Il n'est pas déglingué, ton cœur ? elle a répondu avec une petite moue qui doute.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              34,
              38
            ],
            [
              54,
              58
            ]
          ],
          "english": "Asterix and the Chieftain's Daughter",
          "ref": "2019, Jean-Yves Ferri, Didier Conrad, La fille de Vercingétorix [Asterix and the Chieftain's Daughter] (Astérix), Vanves: Les Éditions Albert René, →ISBN, page 11:",
          "text": "Elle fait quand même une drôle de moue…\nSans doute la moue paternelle !",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "pout, moue"
      ],
      "id": "en-moue-fr-noun-JnM8DzsN",
      "links": [
        [
          "pout",
          "pout"
        ],
        [
          "moue",
          "moue#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/mu/"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "mou"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "moud"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "mouds"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "moues"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "mous"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "moût"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "moûts"
    }
  ],
  "word": "moue"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "faire la moue"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "moue",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ English: moue",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ English: moue"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Inherited"
      },
      "expansion": "Inherited",
      "name": "glossary"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "frm",
        "3": "moue",
        "4": "",
        "5": "",
        "g": "",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "id": "",
        "lit": "",
        "nocat": "",
        "pos": "",
        "sc": "",
        "sort": "",
        "tr": "",
        "ts": ""
      },
      "expansion": "Middle French moue",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "frm",
        "3": "moue"
      },
      "expansion": "Inherited from Middle French moue",
      "name": "inh+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "fro",
        "3": "moe",
        "4": "",
        "5": "grimace"
      },
      "expansion": "Old French moe (“grimace”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "frk",
        "3": "*mauwu",
        "4": "*mauwa",
        "t": "pout, protruding lip"
      },
      "expansion": "Frankish *mauwa (“pout, protruding lip”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "dum",
        "2": "mouwe",
        "3": "",
        "4": "protruding lip"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle Dutch mouwe (“protruding lip”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Inherited from Middle French moue, from Old French moe (“grimace”), from Frankish *mauwa (“pout, protruding lip”). Akin to Middle Dutch mouwe (“protruding lip”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "moues",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f"
      },
      "expansion": "moue f (plural moues)",
      "name": "fr-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "French 1-syllable words",
        "French countable nouns",
        "French entries with incorrect language header",
        "French feminine nouns",
        "French lemmas",
        "French nouns",
        "French terms derived from Frankish",
        "French terms derived from Middle French",
        "French terms derived from Old French",
        "French terms inherited from Middle French",
        "French terms inherited from Old French",
        "French terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "French terms with homophones",
        "French terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 5 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Requests for translations of French quotations",
        "fr:Facial expressions"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_english_offsets": [
            [
              131,
              135
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              139,
              143
            ]
          ],
          "english": "‘What about my heart?’ She smiled at me and leant over the table. ‘Isn't your heart worn out?’ she replied, with a little doubtful pout.",
          "ref": "1999, Anna Gavalda, “Ambre”, in Je voudrais que quelqu'un m'attende quelque part, →ISBN:",
          "text": "– Et mon cœur ? Elle m'a souri et s'est penchée au-dessus de la table. — Il n'est pas déglingué, ton cœur ? elle a répondu avec une petite moue qui doute.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              34,
              38
            ],
            [
              54,
              58
            ]
          ],
          "english": "Asterix and the Chieftain's Daughter",
          "ref": "2019, Jean-Yves Ferri, Didier Conrad, La fille de Vercingétorix [Asterix and the Chieftain's Daughter] (Astérix), Vanves: Les Éditions Albert René, →ISBN, page 11:",
          "text": "Elle fait quand même une drôle de moue…\nSans doute la moue paternelle !",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "pout, moue"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "pout",
          "pout"
        ],
        [
          "moue",
          "moue#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/mu/"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "mou"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "moud"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "mouds"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "moues"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "mous"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "moût"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "moûts"
    }
  ],
  "word": "moue"
}

Download raw JSONL data for moue meaning in French (3.3kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable French dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-24 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-06-20 using wiktextract (074e7de and f1c2b61). 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.