Clébard
Clébard : mutt
Corniaud/cabot (chien bâtard) : mongrel
Corniaud(idiot) : (*)tosser, (*)arsehole
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ordure/pourriture (espece de)
I hear these terms all the time in the American series I watch dubbed in French! (FBI, Les Experts, Cold Case etc)
Espèce de pourriture/ordure : (!)scum/filth/scumbag
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Pétasse
Is this Marseille slang or is it common everywhere in France?
Pétasse : (!)slut, (!)slag, (!)tart
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kiffer
kiffer : to like / to fancy (British Slang)
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fastoche
fastoche : easy as pie, a cinch, easy-peasy (enfantile)
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fringue
fringues : clothes (pas d’argot)
frinqué : decked out
- he was decked out in his best suit and tie
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argot: prénoms masculins
En anglais, les prénoms masculins populaires deviennent souvent des mots argotiques, soit pour le pénis, soit pour un imbecile. Ils varient selon les tendances de prénoms pour chaque génération.
zizi : percy (ne plus utilisé), Willy , Dick
imbecile/con: Charlie, Wally, Dick ( de ‘dickhead’ : tête de noeud)
Notez que ‘Dick’, ‘Dicky’, ‘Rick’ ‘Ricky’, ‘Richy’ sont tous [...]
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morve/morveux
la morve : snot
morveux (enfant turbulent) : brat
enfant morveux : snotty-nosed kid
I couldn’t be a school teacher – I’d hate to work with a bunch of snotty-nosed kids all day!
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casse-pied
casse-pied : a pain in the neck/ (*)a pain in the arse
Mais qu’il est casse-pied! He’s such a pain in the neck
Arrete de me casser les pieds : stop being a pain in the neck / stop bothering me
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verlan : langage à l’envers
Examples of verlan in French:
laisse béton : laisse tomber
meuf : femme
This type of inversed language is not common in English today. One example of a word pronounced backwards which has entered into common speech is ‘yob’ from ‘boy’. Today a ‘yob’ is an uncouth, rowdy young man
Yob : voyou
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