roué

See also roue

English

Etymology

Borrowing from French roué.

Noun

roué (plural roués)

1. A debauched or lecherous person.
   • 2005, Richard Brooks and Stuart Wavell, "Rumpole takes a great big spanking", The Sunday Times, August 14, 2005:

     The old roué, twice married and patriarch of an extended family, never concealed the fact that he was “a ladies’ man”.

Synonyms

• rake

Translations

A debauched or lecherous person

• French: roué (fr) m
• German: Roué (de) m, Lustmolch (de) m

• Portuguese: debochado (pt) m
• Swedish: rumlare (sv)

Anagrams

• Euro, euro

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French

Etymology

Past participle of rouer to break upon a wheel or to beat harshly, from the belief that such individuals deserve such a punishment. Rouer derives from the Latin rota (“wheel”), from Proto-Indo-European *ret- (“to run, to roll”).

Noun

roué m (plural roués; feminine rouée, plural rouées)

1. A roué, a debauched or lecherous person

Verb

roué m (feminine rouée, masculine plural roués, feminine plural rouées)

1. Past participle of rouer

Anagrams

• euro