foule

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See also: foulé

English

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Adjective

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foule (comparative more foule, superlative most foule)

  1. Obsolete form of foul.

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French

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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Middle French foule (group of men, people collectively), alteration (due to Middle French foule (act of treading)) of Old French foulc (people, multitude, crowd, troop), from Early Medieval Latin fulcus, from Frankish *folc, *fulc (crowd, multitude, people), from Proto-Germanic *fulką (collection or class of people, multitude; host of warriors), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (to fill). Cognate with Old High German folc (people collectively, nation), Old English folc (common people, troop, multitude). More at folk.

For the loss of c after l, compare Old French mareschal, seneschal, etc.

Noun

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foule f (plural foules)

  1. crowd
    Les psychologues sociaux ont développé plusieurs théories afin d’expliquer la façon dont la psychologie d’une foule diffère et interagit avec celle des individus en son sein.
    Social Psychologists have developed several theories to explain the way in which the psychology of a crowd differs and interacts with that of the individuals within it.
  2. the thronging of a crowd
  3. a great number, multitude, mass; host
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Etymology 2

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From Middle French foule (the act of milling clothes or hats) and fouler (to trample, mill, fordo, mistreat), from Old French foler (to crush, act wickedly), from Latin fullō (to trample, to full). More at full.

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foule f (plural foules)

  1. the act or process of treading or milling
  2. oppression, vexation

Verb

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foule

  1. inflection of fouler:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

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German

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Verb

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foule

  1. inflection of foulen:
    1. first-person singular present
    2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
    3. singular imperative

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Etymology

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From Old French foulc (people, multitude, crowd, troop), from Vulgar Latin, from Frankish *folk (crowd, multitude, people), from Proto-Germanic *fulką (collection or class of people, multitude; host of warriors), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (to fill).

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foule f (plural foules)

  1. (Jersey) crowd

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