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101 pierre cassée
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102 brutal
n. m.1. Du brutal:a 'Hard stuff', strong liquor (usually of the 'moonshine' variety).b 'Rough plonk', cheap and nasty red wine.c Coarse bread. (With this meaning, the word is associated with prison life up to the 30s and 40s.) -
103 caporal
n. m. Cheap and coarse tobacco. Il fume du caporal plein de bûches: He smokes the most awful baccy, real warehouse sweepings! -
104 gaudriole
n. f.1. A bit of 'how's your father?!', 'hanky-panky', randy horse- play. Il ne pense qu'à la gaudriole: He's got sex on the brain!2. (pl.): Smutty jokes and stories. Débiter des gaudrioles: To come out with coarse jokes. -
105 gueule
n. f.I.(A) General meaning: mouth.a To have a loud and booming voice.b To be 'foul-mouthed', to constantly use coarse language.2. Un coup de gueule: An angry verbal outburst. Leur vie est faite de coups de gueule: Their life is just one perpetual slanging match.3. Ta gueule! Shut your cakehole! — Shut up! (also: la ferme!).4. Avoir la gueule de bois: To 'have a hangover', to suffer the after-effects of a drinking bout.5. Etre une fine gueule: To be something of a gourmet.6. Etre porté sur la gueule: To be in the habit of over- indulging where food is concerned.II.(B) General meaning: face.a To look 'down in the mouth', to look ill.b To 'have an ugly mush', to be afflicted with an ugly face. Avoir une gueule à coucher dehors: To have a face like the back of a bus (literally to have features that would even get you turned away from a hostel for down-and-outs).2. Faire la gueule: To sulk, to act sullen and disapproving. Quand il est sorti, il poussait une de ces gueules: You should have seen the way he was scowling when he came out of the office.3. Se fendre la gueule: To 'split one's sides laughing', to have a jolly good laugh (also: se fendre le paraptuie).4. Se payer la gueule de quelqu'un: To 'take the mickey', to poke fun at someone.5. Casser la gueule à quelqu'un: To 'push someone's face in', to bash someone up.a (lit.): To fall flat on one's face, to fall to the ground.b (fig.): To 'come a cropper', to 'come unstuck', to suffer a major setback.7. Les Gueules Cassées: War veterans whose faces were disfigured in the war. (The appellation has become very familiar through a charity known by that name and indirectly sponsored by the Loterie Nationale.)III.(C) General meaning: looks, appearance.1. Avoir de la gueule (not necessarily of person): To look good. C'était un spectacle qui avait vraiment de la gueule: As a show it really stood out. C'est une fille qui a de la gueule: She really has what it takes! — There's a good-looking girl!2. Ça prend une sale gueule: Things are looking grim— Matters are taking a turn for the worse. -
106 indécrottable
I.n. m. 'Boor', oaf, uncouth character.II.adj. 'Boorish', 'oafish', coarse. Il est indécrottable, il sent encore sa campagne: City life certainly hasn't added any lustre to his manners! -
107 rouge
n. m.1. Du rouge: Red wine. Vous prendrez bien un petit rouge? How about a glass of red wine? Gros rouge: 'Plonk', cheap and rough red wine. (The appellation du gros rouge qui tache gives a good idea of the coarse nature of this 'vino'.)2. 'Commie', 'Red', Communist. Les rouges, c'est son obsession, il en voit partout! He seems obsessed with 'Reds under the bed' ideas!3. Mettre le rouge: To 'kick up some aggro', to create a disturbance (usually through sheer physical violence. The expression le rouge est mis belongs either to the language of horseracing where it indicates that no more oncourse betting is possible, or to the world of T.V. and film productions where it means that a scene is being shot in a studio). -
108 Boeuf gros sel
boiled beef, served with vegetables and coarse salt. -
109 Croque au sel, à la
served raw, with a small bowl of coarse salt for seasoning; tiny purple artichokes and cherry tomatoes are served this way.Alimentation Glossaire français-anglais > Croque au sel, à la
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110 Moutarde (à l'ancienne, en graines)
mustard (old-style, coarse-grained).Alimentation Glossaire français-anglais > Moutarde (à l'ancienne, en graines)
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111 grossier
boorish, coarse, crass, gross, rude, scurrilous, tactless
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coarse´ly — coarse «krs, kohrs», adjective, coars|er, coars|est. 1. made up of fairly large parts; not fine: »coarse salt, coarse sand. 2. heavy or rough in looks or texture: »Burlap is a coarse cloth. The old fisherman had coarse, weathered features. 3.… … Useful english dictionary
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coarse — index blatant (obtrusive), brutal, disreputable, impertinent (insolent), inelegant, lascivious, lur … Law dictionary
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