cabrer

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French

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Etymology

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Perhaps from cabre. Compare Spanish cabrear. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ka.bʁe/
  • Rhymes: -e
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Verb

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cabrer

  1. (reflexive, of a horse) to rear up
  2. (reflexive, figurative) to complain
    • 1992, Amélie Nothomb, Hygiène de l'assassin; republished as Alison Anderson, transl., Hygiene and the Assassin, 2010:
      Le journaliste nota sur le carnet : « T. accueille les compliments sans se cabrer. »
      The journalist wrote in his notebook: “T. does not respond to compliments.”

Conjugation

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