cuistre
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Old French questre, subjective case of cuistron, coistron, inherited from Late Latin *coquistrō, related to coquō (“to cook”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
cuistre m (plural cuistres)
- (derogatory) prig, uneducated pedant
- Synonym: pédant
Further reading[edit]
- “cuistre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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