étron
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Middle French étront, from Old French estront, from Late Latin struntus, borrowed from Frankish *strunt, from Proto-Germanic *strunt- (“stump”), from *strent- (“to be stiff”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ter- (“stiff”). Compare Italian stronzo (“asshole, dumbass”), Dutch stront (“feces, turd”), West Frisian stront, English strunt (“tail”), Middle High German strunze (“stump”), Luxembourgish strëllchen, dialectal Swedish strunt (“a bud, sprout, offshoot”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /e.tʁɔ̃/
Audio (France (Toulouse)): (file) Audio (France (Vosges)): (file) Audio (France (Somain)): (file)
Noun
[edit]étron m (plural étrons)
- turd, crap, fecal matter
- 1785, Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, Les 120 journées de Sodome, ou l'École du libertinage:
- Il se fait foutre et fouetter alternativement par deux hommes, pendant qu'il encule un jeune garçon et qu'un vieux lui fait dans sa bouche un étron qu'il mange.
- He got fucked and whipped in turn by two men, while he buggered a young boy and an old man did a turd in his mouth, which he ate.
- 2025 July, Sébastian Morin, “Les créateurs de South Park ont débarqué aux Oscars sous LSD”, in Sofilm, number 110, →ISSN, page 77:
- La graine South Park est planée, et après de multiples rebondissements — les chaînes hésitant à financer une production qui met en scène un étron portant un bonnet de Père Noël —, c'est finalement Comedy Central qui tente le coup.
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Further reading
[edit]- “étron”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
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