poule
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /puːl/
Etymology 1
Borrowed from French poule, from Latin pullus, pulla.
Noun
poule (plural poules)
- A girl, a young woman, especially seen as promiscuous; a slut. [from 1920s]
- 1926, Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises, Folio Society 2008, p. 40:
- It was a warm spring night and I sat at a table on the terrace of the Napolitain after Robert had gone, watching […] the poules going by, singly and in pairs, looking for the evening meal.
- 2000, J. G. Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate 2011, p. 369:
- ‘Where are the Delages taking you?’ ‘Dinner at…somewhere terribly smart. They'll pretend I'm a poule they picked up in the street.’
- 1926, Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises, Folio Society 2008, p. 40:
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pul/
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Etymology 1
From Old French, from Vulgar Latin pulla, feminine form of from Latin pullus.
Derived terms
See also
Etymology 2
Of uncertain origin.
Noun
poule f (plural poules)
- (card games) pool
- pool, group (stage of a competition before the knockout stages)
Derived terms
Descendants
- English: pool
Further reading
- “poule” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Norman
Etymology
From Old French poule, from Vulgar Latin pulla, feminine form of Latin pullus (“rooster”).
Synonyms
Derived terms
- hèrbe à poules (“annual meadow grass”)
- lait d'poule (“milkshake”)
- poule dg'ieau (“moorhen”)
- poule d'ieau (“lumpsucker”)
- poulette (“pullet”)
- séthée ès poules (“bachelorette party, hen night, hen party”)
Old French
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin pulla, feminine form of pullus.
Derived terms
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (poule, supplement)
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