gringalet
Appearance
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Uncertain, perhaps from Alemannic German granggel, gränggeli.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]gringalet (feminine gringalette, masculine plural gringalets, feminine plural gringalettes)
- (colloquial) weak, wimpy
- 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […][1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:
- Il le trouvait bien un peu gringalet, et ce n'était pas là un gendre comme il l'eût souhaité; mais on le disait de bonne conduite, économe, fort instruit, et sans doute qu'il ne chicanerait pas trop sur la dot.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Noun
[edit]gringalet m (plural gringalets)
Further reading
[edit]- “gringalet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
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