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1 bath
adj. inv.1. 'A-1', first-rate, superb. Une bath mousmé: A smashing bird. C'est une bath affure! It's a great opportunity.2. Bloody awful, appalling. Pauvre mec, il lui est arrivé un bath machin! Poor bugger! He's had a rotten setback! (This antiphrastic meaning is only noticeable within context and intonation.) -
2 grosse
n. f. Faire de la grosse: To 'do time', to do a stretch in jail. Il a dérouilié cinq ans de grosse: The poor bugger copped five years porridge. -
3 guignol
n. m.1. Buffoon, one who overdoes the clowning. Cesse de faire le guignol! Stop arsing about!2. Burlesque and chaotic state of affairs. Quel guignol! (also: C'est un vrai guignol!): What a performance! — What a ridiculous shambles!3. Tribunal, court of law. Passer au guignol: To come up in front of the bench.4. (th.): Prompt-box (where the prompter sits).5. (pl.): Les guignols: 'The fuzz', the police. (Most of these meanings are directly related to the original meaning ofguignol, with their Punch and Judy implications.)6. 'Ticker', heart. 'y a son guignol qui fait des siennes: The poor bugger's got a dicky ticker. -
4 sauce
n. f.1. 'Soup', heavy downpour of rain. Recevoir une sauce: To get soaked to the skin.2. Motor-fuel (petrol or diesel). Mettre la sauce: To 'burn some rubber', to accelerate violently.3. Coup de sauce (Sporting slang): Burst of energy. Répondre à chaque coup de sauce (Cycling slang): To counter every sprint.a To 'juice off', to ejaculate.b To fire off, to shoot (a gun).5. Etre dans la sauce: To be 'in the soup', 'in a pickle', to be in a fix.6. Allonger (also: rallonger) la sauce (of tale, narration): To 'spin it out', to make it last and last.7. Faire de la sauce (Musicians' slang): To 'fill in' with some spontaneous free composition.8. Mettre à toutes les sauces: To put someone or something to every possible use. Le pauvre, on le met à toutes les sauces! Poor bugger! He seems to be at everyone's beck and call! -
5 bougre
masculine noun• bougre d'idiot ! stupid idiot! (inf)* * *(colloq) bugʀ nom masculin ( type) bloke (colloq)bougre d'imbécile — you damn (colloq) idiot
* * *buɡʀ nm1) péjoratif chap2) *ce bougre de... — that confounded...
* * *bougre nm1 ○( type) bloke; le bougre! that so and so!; bon bougre good sort; pauvre bougre poor devil; bougre d'imbécile you bloody GB ou damn○ idiot;2 †( sodomite) bugger†.[bugr] (familier & vieilli) nom masculin2. (péjoratif)————————[bugr] (familier & vieilli) interjection -
6 bougre
I.n. m. Chap, fellow. Bon bougre: Good bloke, decent sort of chap, nice guy. Ne pas être (un) mauvais bougre: To be basically a decent fellow. C'est un sacré bougre! He's a card! Bougre de menieur! (joc.): You lying hound! Un pauvre bougre: A poor sod, a poor devil. Un sale bougre: A 'nasty piece of work', an evil bugger.II.adj. Bougre d'idiot! You bloody idiot! —Quel bougre de temps! What bloody awful weather! (The adjective is more an intensifier than anything else.)III.interj. Blimey! — Crikey! (The English and French are equally twee.)
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