Wiktionary talk:Foreign Word of the Day/2021/May 20

@Lingo Bingo Dingo: Apparently it wasn't always a pejorative, and I wonder if it's not sometimes reclaimed by certain homeless people. But for me this word is rather strongly connoted, so I think it might be a bit too borderline to feature. PUC – 14:51, 25 October 2020 (UTC)

@PUC I see, thank you. I was quite surprised to see that it is derogatory (it's somewhat formal in Netherlands Dutch for one) and the cite does not seem pejorative at all. In any case, it is best to stay away from the borderline of offensiveness. Do you happen to know a good, interesting French alternative FWOTD associated with vagrancy? ←₰-→ Lingo ^Bingo _Dingo (talk) 14:57, 25 October 2020 (UTC)

@Lingo Bingo Dingo: For me it's the reverse: I recently heard клоша́р (klošár) used in Russian, which puzzled me at first. However, it didn't seem to carry any negative connotation; it was simply used to refer to French vagrants.

I agree that it's not used in a negative way in the quote we currently have. However, you can look for "espèce de clochard", "putain de clochard", "sale clochard", "look de clochard", "gueule de clochard", "avoir l'air d'un clochard", "bande de clochards", etc. I really think it has undergone pejorativization over time.

Maybe à la rue, which apparently has a figurative sense as well, though I've never heard it? PUC – 15:29, 25 October 2020 (UTC)

All right, I'll look into à la rue. ←₰-→ Lingo ^Bingo _Dingo (talk) 15:38, 25 October 2020 (UTC)