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1 trempe
trempe [tʀɑ̃p]feminine noun* * *tʀɑ̃p1) ( de personne)il faudrait quelqu'un de votre trempe — we need someone of your calibre [BrE]
2) (sl) ( coups) walloping (colloq) [U]* * *tʀɑ̃p nfde cette trempe — of this calibre Grande-Bretagne of this caliber USA of his calibre Grande-Bretagne of his caliber USA
* * *trempe nf1 ( de personne) avoir de la trempe to be made of stern stuff; il faudrait quelqu'un de votre trempe we need someone of your calibreGB; avoir la trempe d'un dirigeant to have the makings of a leader;2 ○( coups) walloping○ ¢; recevoir une bonne trempe○ to get a good walloping○;[trɑ̃p] nom féminin1. [caractère]recevoir une bonne trempe to get a good hiding ou thrashing3. MÉTALLURGIE [traitement] quenching[résultat] temper -
2 trempé
trempe [tʀɑ̃p]feminine noun* * *tʀɑ̃p1) ( de personne)il faudrait quelqu'un de votre trempe — we need someone of your calibre [BrE]
2) (sl) ( coups) walloping (colloq) [U]* * *tʀɑ̃p nfde cette trempe — of this calibre Grande-Bretagne of this caliber USA of his calibre Grande-Bretagne of his caliber USA
* * *trempe nf1 ( de personne) avoir de la trempe to be made of stern stuff; il faudrait quelqu'un de votre trempe we need someone of your calibreGB; avoir la trempe d'un dirigeant to have the makings of a leader;2 ○( coups) walloping○ ¢; recevoir une bonne trempe○ to get a good walloping○;[chaussures, jardin] waterloggedtrempé de larmes [mouchoir] tear-stained2. [vin, lait] watered-down3. [énergique]5. [verre] toughened -
3 rouste
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4 floppée
n. f. 'Walloping', 'thrashing', beating-up. -
5 pile
I.n. f.1. Thrashing.a (lit.): 'Pasting', walloping. Il lui a filé une de ces piles à la fin du round: He knocked the living daylights out of him right on the bell.b (fig.): En '45 les Chleus ont pris la pile des piles! Just before the end of the war we knocked the stuffing out of Jerry!2. Unit of 100 francs in pre-1958 currency. Cinq piles, c'est vraiment pas cher pour toutes ces cibiches! I'd say you're getting these fags at a reasonable price! (Like the English 'pony', pile belongs to the grey language area shadowing the underworld. The word would have no meaning to the middle classes of the 40s and 50s.)II.adv.1. Precisely, exactly. Je dois commencer a huit heures pile: I've got to start at eight on the dot. Ça fait pile ce que je te dois! Here's what I owe you, now we're quits!2. Ça tombe pile: It couldn't have happened at a better time! Vous arrivez pile! Am I glad you're here!3. S'arrêter pile: To 'stop dead', to come to an abrupt halt. (There would appear to be a link between the adverbial pile and the wrist-smacking flip-over involved in the tossing of a coin.) -
6 rouste
n. f. 'Pasting', 'walloping', thrashing. Filer une rouste à quelqu'un: To beat someone black-and-blue. -
7 tannée
n. f. 'Thrashing', 'walloping', beatingup. -
8 tatouille
n. f.1. 'Walloping', thrashing.2. 'Dressing-down', telling-off. -
9 défaite
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10 échec
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11 match perdu
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12 revers
См. также в других словарях:
walloping — [wäl′əpiŋ] Informal adj. [prp. of WALLOP] 1. impressively large; enormous 2. extraordinary n. 1. a thrashing or beating 2. a crushing defeat adv. extraordinarily … English World dictionary
walloping — wal|lop|ing1 [ˈwɔləpıŋ US ˈwa: ] n spoken give sb/get a walloping to hit someone hard several times as a punishment walloping 2 walloping2 adj [only before noun] BrE spoken very big walloping great/big ▪ a walloping great house … Dictionary of contemporary English
walloping — 1 noun spoken give sb/get a walloping to hit someone repeatedly as a punishment 2 adjective (only before noun) walloping great/big spoken very big: a walloping great house in the country … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
walloping — I UK [ˈwɒləpɪŋ] / US [ˈwɑləpɪŋ] noun [countable] Word forms walloping : singular walloping plural wallopings informal an occasion when someone hits another person a lot My aunt threatened to give me a walloping! II UK [ˈwɒləpɪŋ] / US [ˈwɑləpɪŋ]… … English dictionary
walloping — wal|lop|ing1 [ waləpıŋ ] noun count INFORMAL an occasion when someone hits another person a lot: My aunt threatened to give me a walloping! walloping wal|lop|ing 2 [ waləpıŋ ] adjective SPOKEN very big … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
Walloping — Wallop Wal lop, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Walloped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Walloping}.] [Probably fr. AS. weallan to spring up, to boil or bubble. [root]147. See {Well}, n. & v. i.] [1913 Webster] 1. To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
walloping — /wol euh ping/, Informal. n. 1. a sound beating or thrashing. 2. a thorough defeat. adj. 3. impressively big or good; whopping. adv. 4. extremely; immensely: We ran up a walloping big bill. [1350 1400; ME; see WALLOP, ING1, ING2] * * * … Universalium
walloping — 1. adjective a) whopping, large in size b) of exceptional, impressive quality 2. noun a) A series of wallops (blows.) For forgetting to pick up the package again, my boss gave a walloping. b) … Wiktionary
walloping — /ˈwɒləpɪŋ/ (say woluhping) Colloquial –noun 1. a sound beating or thrashing. 2. a thorough defeat. –adjective 3. of large size; whopping: *For a sinner, even a sinner poised on the brink of committing her first really walloping sin, Peronel had… …
walloping — adjective Date: 1823 1. large, whopping 2. exceptionally fine or impressive ; smashing … New Collegiate Dictionary
walloping — Synonyms and related words: banging, bumping, colossal, dressing down, enormous, gargantuan, giant, gigantic, hiding, immense, larruping, lathering, leathering, licking, mammoth, monster, paddling, prodigious, slapping, spanking, tanning,… … Moby Thesaurus