bégueule
French
editEtymology
editFrom Middle French beegueule, from Old French beer, bayer (“to gape, gawk”) + Old French gueule (“gullet”), equivalent to bée (“wide open”) + gueule (“mouth”). Compare Old French gole baee (“open mouth”).
Pronunciation
editNomen
editbégueule m or f by sense (plural bégueules)
- (colloquial) prude
- (colloquial) prissy person
- 1772, Voltaire, “La Bégueule”, in Contes en vers:
- La fée arrive, et peut-être un peu tard. / Présente à tout, elle était à l’écart. / « Vous voyez bien, dit-elle à sa filleule, / Que vous étiez une franche bégueule […] »
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Derived terms
editAdjective
editbégueule (plural bégueules)
Further reading
edit- “bégueule”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Kategorien:
- French terms inherited from Middle French
- French terms derived from Middle French
- French terms derived from Old French
- French compound terms
- French 2-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with audio links
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French masculine nouns
- French feminine nouns
- French nouns with multiple genders
- French masculine and feminine nouns by sense
- French colloquialisms
- French terms with quotations
- French adjectives
- fr:People