mouchard
English
Noun
mouchard (plural mouchards)
- An undercover investigator; a police spy, especially in a French-speaking country.
- (nautical) An inverted compass hanging above the captain's bed
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /muʃaʁ/
- Rhymes: -aʁ
Noun
mouchard m (plural mouchards)
Derived terms
Synonyms
- (police informant): indic
- (snitch, tell-tale): cafteur, cafard
- (peephole): judas
- (spyware): espiogiciel
- (spyplane): avion-espion
- (black box): boîte noire
- (flight recorder): enregistreur de vol
Further reading
- “mouchard” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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