"cure-oreille" meaning in Français

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Noun

IPA: \ky.ʁ‿ɔ.ʁɛj\ Forms: cure-oreilles [plural]
  1. Petit instrument avec lequel on se cure le conduit auditif, on se le nettoie.
    Sense id: fr-cure-oreille-fr-noun-UbH~XEei Categories (other): Exemples en français
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: auriscalpe Translations: earpick (Anglais), 耳挖 (ěrwā) (Chinois)

Inflected forms

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    {
      "word": "courriellée"
    }
  ],
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    }
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  "etymology_texts": [
    "Du français curer et oreille."
  ],
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      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Français",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "noun",
  "pos_title": "Nom commun",
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              4,
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          ],
          "ref": "Joris-Karl Huysmans, Les sœurs Vatard, 1871",
          "text": "Des cure-oreilles. Des égueulés offraient des cure-dents et des cure-oreilles, et un affreux voyou dont les yeux se fleurissaient de compères-loriots hurlait : l’anneau brisé, la sûreté des clefs, dix centimes, deux sous !"
        }
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        "Petit instrument avec lequel on se cure le conduit auditif, on se le nettoie."
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    }
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      "lang": "Anglais",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "word": "earpick"
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      "roman": "ěrwā",
      "word": "耳挖"
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      "word": "courriellée"
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  ],
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    "Traductions en anglais",
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  "etymology_texts": [
    "Du français curer et oreille."
  ],
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    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "fr",
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          "text": "Des cure-oreilles. Des égueulés offraient des cure-dents et des cure-oreilles, et un affreux voyou dont les yeux se fleurissaient de compères-loriots hurlait : l’anneau brisé, la sûreté des clefs, dix centimes, deux sous !"
        }
      ],
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        "Petit instrument avec lequel on se cure le conduit auditif, on se le nettoie."
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      "word": "auriscalpe"
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  "translations": [
    {
      "lang": "Anglais",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "word": "earpick"
    },
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      "lang": "Chinois",
      "lang_code": "zh",
      "roman": "ěrwā",
      "word": "耳挖"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cure-oreille"
}

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