chleuh

See also: Chleuh

French

Alternative forms

• schleu, schleuh (Germanized variant forms, used when the word means "German")

Etymology

From Berber. Among the French military in Africa it came to mean "one who couldn't speak French" and was then applied to the Germans during the Second World War.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /klø/

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Noun

chleuh m (plural chleuhs, feminine chleuhe)

1. (uncountable) Tashelhit; one of the Berber languages
2. (countable, derogatory, ethnic slur) a German; a kraut [1940s]

Synonyms

• (German, pejorative): boche

Adjective

chleuh (feminine chleuhe, masculine plural chleuhs, feminine plural chleuhes)

1. Tashelhit
2. (derogatory) German

Further reading

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