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121 passoire
n. f.1. Sieve-like memory. Quelle passoire qu'il a! He'd forget his own name, given half a chance!2. 'Spend, spend, spend' character, spendthrift person.3. Clumsy goalkeeper, one who seems to let the ball through every time. -
122 pègre
n. f. La pègre: The underworld. (This Marseilles word does not have the aura of le milieu. Faire partie de la pègre is uncomplimentary; appartenir au milieu somehow seems more acceptable.) -
123 perdreau
n. m. Plain-clothes police-officer. Les perdreaux: The fuzz. (In the plural, no distinction seems to be made between plainclothes and uniformed policemen.) -
124 perlot
n. m. 'Baccy', tobacco. (This rather dated word seems to be making a comeback with the increase in 'roll-your-own' smokers.) -
125 Pétaouchnock
Proper name. 'Thingsville'. (As in the English equivalent, Pétaouchnock is the jocular and ironic name for the kind of back-of-beyond town no-one ever seems to have heard of.) -
126 phrasicoteur
n. m. 'Pompous waffler', character who seems to like the sound of his own voice. -
127 pinailler
v. intrans. To 'split hairs', to quibble. Toute sa vie il n'a jamais cessé de pinailler: Nothing ever seems to be right for him. -
128 pisse-froid
n. m. 'Cold fish', character who seems to have no emotions. (There is a suggestion that the 'cold fish' in question might be also something of a 'wet blanket'.)
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