putois

English

Etymology

French putois

Noun

putois (plural putois)

1. A brush of polecat's hair for painting ceramics.

Anagrams

• pistou

French

Putois (Mustela putorius)

Etymology

From Old French put + -ois.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /py.twa/

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Noun

putois m (plural putois)

1. polecat (especially, the European polecat, Mustela putorius)

Derived terms

• crier comme un putois

Further reading

• “putois”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.