dégueulasse
French
Alternative forms
- dégueu (clipping)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /de.ɡœ.las/
- Homophone: dégueulasses
Etymology 1
From dégueuler (“to vomit”) + -asse. Compare English vomitrocious.
Adjective
dégueulasse (plural dégueulasses)
- (slang) bloody disgusting; rank; yucky
- 2016 July 3, Olivier Philippe-Viela, "Mort de Michel Rocard: «La politique est dégueulasse»... Les cinq phrases à retenir de Michel Rocard", 20 Minutes, quoting a phrase from 1991 April 25 by Michel Rocard.
- La politique est dégueulasse, parce que les hommes qui la font la rendent dégueulasse.
- Politics is disgusting, because the people who practise it make it disgusting.
- La politique est dégueulasse, parce que les hommes qui la font la rendent dégueulasse.
- 2016 July 3, Olivier Philippe-Viela, "Mort de Michel Rocard: «La politique est dégueulasse»... Les cinq phrases à retenir de Michel Rocard", 20 Minutes, quoting a phrase from 1991 April 25 by Michel Rocard.
- (Quebec, slang) cool, wicked, amazing
Verb
dégueulasse
- first-person singular present indicative of dégueulasser
- third-person singular present indicative of dégueulasser
- first-person singular present subjunctive of dégueulasser
- third-person singular present subjunctive of dégueulasser
- second-person singular imperative of dégueulasser
Further reading
- “dégueulasse” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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