joual
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Canadian French joual.
Noun
[edit]joual (uncountable)
- (Canada) The dialect of working-class Quebecers.
- 2011, Erin Hurley, National Performance: Representing Quebec from Expo 67 to Céline Dion[1], University of Toronto Press, →ISBN:
- As inflammatory as what the joual ‘is’—a mixed, oral sociolect—is its function as a kind of self-image for Québécois. In Jean-Claude Germain's terms, joual ‘bears in its flesh the scars of life and history.’
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation spelling of the joual pronunciation of cheval (“horse”) (/ʃəval/ → /ʒwal/).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]joual m (uncountable)
- (Canada) joual
- 2023 June, Éric Delhaye, “Au Québec, in French, please !”, in Le Monde diplomatique, page 27:
- Pilier de cette scène, Loud manie aussi le joual (le parler québécois populaire) et assume de jongler avec un lexique composite : […]
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (New England, Canada, Missouri) horse
Adjective
[edit]joual (feminine jouale, masculine plural jouals, feminine plural jouales)
- (relational) joual
- des mots jouals ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “joual”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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