cuite
See also: cuité
French
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From cuire
Participle
cuite
- feminine singular of the past participle of cuire
Noun
cuite f (plural cuites)
- batch of ore, porcelain or the like for smelting; viewed economically, the time an occurence of smelting takes
- 1753, Christophe-André Schlutter, “CXXXIII. De le fabrication des vitriols.”, in M. Hellot, transl., De la fonte des mines, des fonderies, des grillages, des fourneaux de fonte, d’affinage, de raffinage, des fabriques de vitriol, de potasse, &c., volume 2, Paris: Jean-Thomas Hérissant; Jacques-Noël Pissot, page 641:
- Lorsque les grandes cuves sont pleines de lessive, on en commence les cuites. La premiere n’étant que de lessive sauvage, dure vingt-six à trente heures; mais lorsqu’on on peut remplir avec de la lessive qui a déja fourni du vitriol, alors la cuite ne dure que dix-huit à vingt heures.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- Synonym: fournée
- (slang) piss-up (UK), bender (US)
- J'ai pris une cuite hier soir. – I got plastered last night.
Etymology 2
Regular conjugated form of cuiter
Verb
cuite
- first-person singular present indicative of cuiter
- third-person singular present indicative of cuiter
- first-person singular present subjunctive of cuiter
- third-person singular present subjunctive of cuiter
- second-person singular imperative of cuiter
Further reading
- “cuite”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Spanish
Verb
cuite
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