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lit. "stamp"; a distinctive quality; quality, prestige. café. a coffee shop (also used in French for "coffee"). Café au lait. café au lait. coffee with milk; or a light-brown color. In medicine, it is also used to describe a birthmark that is of a light-brown color (café au lait spot). calque. a copied term/thing.
The word beurette, the female version of beur, is created by adding the -ette female suffix in French. In French many slang words are created by simply reversing the word in terms of spelling and then reading it out. Because of French grammar rules, the new word is usually completely different from the result of reversing the word phonetically.
Quebec French profanity. Mailbox sign using French-Canadian profanity. The English (approximate) translation is "No fucking admail ". Tabarnak is the strongest form of that sacre, derived from tabernacle (where the Eucharist is stored, in Roman Catholicism). Quebec French profanities, [1] known as sacres (singular: sacre; French: sacrer, "to ...
Explore the different words and expressions that are used to disparage or insult women across cultures and history.
Becky (slang) Belle (given name) Betel nut beauty. Bimbo. Bitch (slang) Black American princess. Bobby soxer (subculture) Bombshell (slang) Boseulachi.
Bruh. "Bruh" originated from the word "brother" and was used by Black men to address each other as far back as the late 1800s. Around 1890, it was recorded as a title that came before someone's ...
Southern belle. Sallie Ward, a Southern belle. " Southern belle " (from French belle 'beautiful') is a colloquialism for a debutante or other fashionable young woman in the planter class of the Antebellum South, particularly as a romantic counterpart to the Southern gentleman. [1]
Quebec French lexicon. There are various lexical differences between Quebec French and Metropolitan French in France. These are distributed throughout the registers, from slang to formal usage. Notwithstanding Acadian French in the Maritime Provinces, Quebec French is the dominant form of French throughout Canada, with only very limited ...