bidon

See also: bidón

English

A bidon mounted on a bicycle

Etymology

From French bidon.

Noun

bidon (plural bidons)

1. (cycling) A water bottle.

Hypernyms

• sports bottle

Anagrams

• Bodin, Bondi, dob in

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Czech

Etymology

From French bidon.

Noun

bidon m inan

1. a bidon, occasionally also: a sports bottle
2. (dated, rare) a jerrycan
3. (dated, rare) a canteen (a water bottle used by a soldier)

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French bidon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /biˈdɔn/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: bi‧don
• Rhymes: -ɔn

Noun

bidon m (plural bidons, diminutive bidonnetje n)

1. A bidon; a sports drinking bottle, especially one used on a bicycle.

Derived terms

• bidonhouder

References

• [1][2]

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French

Etymology

From Middle French bidon (“small portable container, sealed and made of wood or metal”), from Old Norse bida, *biða (“container, vessel”), from Proto-Germanic *bidōn, *bidjan (“tub, vessel, vat”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰidʰ- (“pot, bucket, barrel”), from *bʰeydʰ- (“to weave, bind”). Cognate with Icelandic biða (“milkbucket”), Norwegian bide (“churn”), Norwegian bidne (“vessel”), Latin fidēlia (“clay or glass vessel”), Ancient Greek πίθος (píthos, “wine barrel”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bi.dɔ̃/

• audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔ̃

Noun

bidon m (plural bidons)

1. can, tin, canister
   1. milk carton
   2. water bottle
2. (childish) tummy

Descendants

• → Catalan: bidó
• → Greek: μπιτόνι (bitóni)
• → English: bidon
• → Galician: bidón
• → Italian: bidone
• → Khmer: ប៊ីដុង (biidong)
• → Portuguese: bidão
• → Romanian: bidon
• → Russian: бидо́н (bidón)
• → Spanish: bidón

Adjective

bidon (invariable)

1. (slang) rigged

   La course de chevaux est bidon.

   The horse race is rigged.

2. (slang) phoney, sham

   Ces cris et ces pleurs sont bidon puisqu’elle ne l’aimait pas.

   These cries and tears are phoney because she didn't love him.

3. (slang) crap

   Ce film est complètement bidon.

   This film is complete crap.

Derived terms

• bidonville

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• bondi

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Kabuverdianu

bidon

Etymology

From Portuguese bidão.

Noun

bidon

1. drum

References

• Gonçalves, Manuel (2015) Capeverdean Creole-English dictionary, →ISBN
• Veiga, Manuel (2012) Dicionário Caboverdiano-Português, Instituto da Biblioteca Nacional e do Livro

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Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbidon/

Verb

bidon

1. preterite plural of bīdan

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French bidon, Italian bidone.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /biˈdon/

Noun

bidon n (plural bidoane)

1. can, tin, canister
2. a canteen (a water bottle used by a soldier)
3. a water bottle
4. (plural only, slang) jugs, cans, breasts

Declension

Declension of bidon

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) bidon	bidonul	(niște) bidoane	bidoanele
genitive/dative	(unui) bidon	bidonului	(unor) bidoane	bidoanelor
vocative	bidonule		bidoanelor

Synonyms

• (can, canister): matara (regional)

Related terms

• bidonvil

See also

• ploscă

References

• bidon in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)