Volume 4 Flashcards

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le toison

A

fleece

mane

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une giberne

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cartridge pouch

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3
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un réticule

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small sack

hairnet

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4
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une bride

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bridle

button loop

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5
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museler

A

to muzzle

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inatteignable (adj)

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beyond reach

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7
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imbriquer

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to overlap

interlock

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8
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une moisson

A

harvest

haul

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9
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biscornu (adj)

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bizarre

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pédé (adj)

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gay

homosexual

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le courroux

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wrath

colère

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falot (adj)

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insignificant
dull

terne

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13
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picoler

A

to booze

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14
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une radasse

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slut (slang)

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cocasse (adj)

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comical

s’amusant

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16
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messeoir

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to be unbecoming

to not suit

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17
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escamoter

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to make st disappear

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18
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un furoncle

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boil (on the skin)

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19
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un salmigondis

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hodgepodge

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20
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une harde

les hardes

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herd
pack

rags (lit)

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21
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décarrer

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to leave (slang)

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22
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en qualité de

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in the position of

as

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23
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l’apanage (adj)

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prerogative

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un malaise (*masculine)

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malaise

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un spadassin
swordsman | hired killer
26
embourber
to get bogged down
27
juguler
to stamp out
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une bielle
connecting rod
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la grogne
discontent insatisfaction
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embrocher
to run through
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illico
immediately sur le champ
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abréger
to shorten | abridge
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gâteux (adj)
senile
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subrepticement
surreptitiously en cachette
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un calembour
pun
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se gourer
to be in error se tromper
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une avarie
problem (on a ship, plane...)
38
charrier
to in cart (charette) | to bear
39
une diapositive | une diapo
slide (photograph) | transparency
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une sommité
leading expert
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une faiseuse d’anges
abortionist note: literally “maker of angels”; the aborted infants became angels in heaven
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une équerre | en équerre
set square | at a right angle
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l’appoint
exact total owed
44
la boustifaille
grub | food
45
la hargne
aggression
46
gamberger
to cook up
47
une contremarque
re-entry stamp, document
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hébété (adj)
stupid stupide abruti
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induire
induce | infer
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l’étendage (m)
putting washing out to dry
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un hôtel de passe
cheap hotel usd by prostitutes | hotel with hourly rates
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rameuter
to round up
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un sortilège
spell
54
dépuceler
to deflower | take away one’s virginity
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décharné (adj)
skinny
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prévaloir
to prevail
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rébarbatif (adj)
disagreeable | repulsive
58
radoter
to tell repeatedly rabâcher
59
une chignole
hand drill perceuse
60
mimi (adj)
cute
61
escrimer
to knock oneself out trying to do s’appliquer
62
un extincteur
fire extinguisher
63
une burette
burette | oil can
64
les vécés (mp)
toilets
65
superfétatoire (adj)
superfluous superflu
66
une embûche
trap hazard impediment
67
l’inanition (f)
weakness caused by lack of food
68
cupidité
greed avidité
69
branque (adj)
stupid (slang)
70
engrosser
to get pregnant
71
le cuissage
right of signeur to have sex with subjects (dated)
72
un fourneau
furnace stove pipe bowl
73
un têtard
tadpole
74
un goret
piglet
75
souder
to weld | join
76
une engeance
breed
77
puiser
to take from tirer extraire
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la bouillie
gruel | slurry
79
estropié
crippled
80
une décoction
brew | concoction
81
un quatuor
quartet
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musarder
to wander around flâner
83
vanner
to cause a great fatigue
84
filouter
to swindle | rip off
85
les appas (mp)
feminine charms
86
ergoter
to split hairs
87
un pêcheur un pécheur une pécheresse
fisherman sinner sinner
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un toboggan
luge