aboyeur

French

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -jœʁ

Adjective

aboyeur (feminine aboyeuse, masculine plural aboyeurs, feminine plural aboyeuses)

1. (uncommon) Which barks or makes a sound like barking.

   Le lévrier irlandais est un chien amical, doux, loyal envers son maître et sa famille, calme et non aboyeur.

Noun

aboyeur m (plural aboyeurs, feminine aboyeuse)

1. (slightly dated) Someone whose job or involves crying out at people.
2. (literary) Someone who yells a lot at someone else, who heckles, or criticize violently in speech or writing.

Further reading

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