dégueulasse

French

FWOTD – 29 February 2020

Alternative forms

• dégueu (clipping)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de.ɡœ.las/
• Homophone: dégueulasses

Etymology 1

From dégueuler (“to vomit”) +‎ -asse. Compare English vomitrocious.

Adjective

dégueulasse (plural dégueulasses)

1. (slang) bloody disgusting; rank; yucky
   • 2016 July 3, Olivier Philippe-Viela, "Mort de Michel Rocard: «La politique est dégueulasse»... Les cinq phrases à retenir de Michel Rocard", 20 Minutes, quoting a phrase from 1991 April 25 by Michel Rocard.

   Synonyms: infect, immonde

   • La politique est dégueulasse, parce que les hommes qui la font la rendent dégueulasse.

     Politics is disgusting, because the men who practise it make it disgusting.

2. (Quebec, slang) cool, wicked, amazing

Etymology 2

Verb

dégueulasse

1. inflection of dégueulasser:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Etymology 3

Verb

dégueulasse

1. first-person singular imperfect subjunctive of dégueuler

Further reading

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