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1 joie
joie [ʒwa]1. feminine noun• quand aurons-nous la joie de vous revoir ? when shall we have the pleasure of seeing you again?• c'est pas la joie ! (inf) it's no fun!2. plural feminine noun• ce sont les joies de la voiture ! that's the joy of car travel!* * *ʒwa1) ( bonheur) joyjoie sans mélange or sans partage — pure joy
quelle joie! — iron wonderful! iron
être ivre de joie — to be drunk with happiness ou delight
2) ( plaisir) pleasurese faire une joie de faire — ( envisager avec plaisir) to look forward to doing; ( faire avec plaisir) to be delighted to do
leurs seules joies — their only pleasures; faux I
••s'en donner à cœur joie — lit to enjoy oneself to the full; fig to have a field day
* * *ʒwa nfavec joie [accepter] — with the greatest pleasure
* * *A nf1 ( bonheur) joy; la joie éclairait son visage his/her face glowed with joy; être au comble de la joie to be overjoyed; joie sans mélange or sans partage pure joy; cette enfant fait la joie de ses parents the child is her parents' pride and joy; la joie de faire the joy ou pleasure of doing; la joie de retrouver sa maison the joy ou pleasure of getting back home; des cris de joie cries of joy; il y a eu des explosions de joie dans toute la ville the whole town erupted with joy; c'est une joie de le regarder he's a joy to look at; quelle joie! wonderful!; être ivre de joie to be drunk with happiness ou delight; sauter/pleurer de joie to jump/cry for joy; avoir de la joie au cœur to have a cheerful disposition; un enfant plein de joie a happy ou sunny child; beaucoup de joie great happiness; faire la joie de qn to gladden ou delight sb, to make sb happy; être en joie to be delighted; mettre qn en joie to delight sb; pour or à la plus grande joie de qn to sb's great delight; être tout à la joie de faire to be carried away by the thrill of doing; c'est la joie dans les rues happiness reigns in the streets; ‘comment ça va au travail?’-‘c'est pas la joie○!’ ‘how are things at work?’-‘not great○!’;2 ( plaisir) pleasure; cela a été une joie de vous recevoir it has been a pleasure to have ou having you; exprimer/dire sa joie de faire to express one's pleasure at doing; avoir la joie de faire to have the pleasure of doing; accepter qch avec joie to accept sth with pleasure; se faire une joie de faire ( envisager avec plaisir) to look forward to doing; ( faire avec plaisir) to be delighted to do; ⇒ faux;3 ( source de plaisir) pleasure, joy; leurs seules joies their only pleasures.B joies nfpl ( aspects agréables) (du monde, des sens) pleasures; (de l'amour, d'une activité) pleasures, joys; goûter aux joies de l'amour to taste the joys of love; s'adonner/se livrer aux joies de qch to devote oneself to/to give oneself over to the joys of sth.joie de vivre joie de vivre, exuberance.[ʒwa] nom fémininpousser un cri de joie to shout ou to whoop for joypour la plus grande joie de ses parents, elle a obtenu la bourse much to the delight of her parents ou to her parent's great delight, she won the scholarshipc'est pas la joie à la maison (familier) life at home isn't exactly a laugh-a-minute ou a bundle of laughs2. [plaisir] pleasurenous avons la joie de vous annoncer la naissance de Charles we are happy to announce the birth of Charlesje suis tout à la joie de revoir mes amis (soutenu) I'm overjoyed at the idea of ou I'm greatly looking forward to seeing my friends againdes films qui ont fait la joie de millions d'enfants films which have given pleasure to ou delighted millions of childrenla petite Émilie fait la joie de sa mère little Emily is the apple of her mother's eye ou is her mother's pride and joyil se faisait une telle joie de venir à ton mariage he was so delighted at the idea of ou so looking forward to coming to your weddingje me ferai une joie de lui dire ses quatre vérités (humoristique) I shall be only too pleased to tell him a few home truths————————joies nom féminin pluriel[plaisirs] joysles joies de la vie/retraite the joys of life/retirement -
2 chouette
I.n. m.1. Le chouette de¼ The great thing about¼ Le chouette de l'affaire, c'est qu'on lui a prêté son propre fric: The really hilarious thing about it all was that we lent him his own money.3. (pl.): Genuine I.D. papers. Marcher sous ses chouettes: To go about under one's true identity.4. Prendre du chouette: To indulge in sodomous intercourse.II.n. f. Il était tout à la chouette à l'idée de revoir sa bonne femme: He was full of the joys of spring at the thought of seeing his missus again.III.adj.1. 'Swell', 'great', fine. C'est une chouette personne, ta frangine: Your sister is a really nice person.a To be 'in someone's good books', to be held in esteem by someone.b To 'have a crush on someone', to be enamoured with someone.IV.interj. Good-ho! — Smashing! — Great! Chouette alors! Well, that's really super! (The French and English are equally twee.) -
3 rigouillard
adj.1. (of person): Fond of 'larking about', 'full of the joys of spring' where women are concerned.2. 'Side-splitting', hilarious, very funny.
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