"bec-cornu" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [Français]

IPA: \bɛ.kɔʁ.ny\ Forms: becs-cornus [plural]
  1. Sot, imbécile.
    Sense id: fr-bec-cornu-fr-noun-Ja8fR5pL Categories (other): Exemples en français
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: becque-cornu

Inflected forms

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    "→ voir becque ou bec, de l’italien becco « bouc », et, figurément, « homme que sa femme trompe », et cornu.",
    "Note : L’orthographe becque-cornu est la meilleure, attendu que becque n’a rien de commun avec bec."
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        {
          "ref": "Molière, Le Médecin malgré lui, acte I, scène 2, 1666",
          "text": "Que maudit soit le bec-cornu de notaire qui m’a fait signer ma ruine !"
        },
        {
          "ref": "Richard Jorif, Tohu-Bohu, éditions Julliard, Paris, 2000",
          "text": "Toi qui te surprends si souvent à soliloquer dans le vide, pauvre becque-cornu, est-ce que tu t’entends parler en portugais ?"
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        "Sot, imbécile."
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    "→ voir becque ou bec, de l’italien becco « bouc », et, figurément, « homme que sa femme trompe », et cornu.",
    "Note : L’orthographe becque-cornu est la meilleure, attendu que becque n’a rien de commun avec bec."
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          "ref": "Molière, Le Médecin malgré lui, acte I, scène 2, 1666",
          "text": "Que maudit soit le bec-cornu de notaire qui m’a fait signer ma ruine !"
        },
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          "ref": "Richard Jorif, Tohu-Bohu, éditions Julliard, Paris, 2000",
          "text": "Toi qui te surprends si souvent à soliloquer dans le vide, pauvre becque-cornu, est-ce que tu t’entends parler en portugais ?"
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