plouc
Appearance
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Breton plouk, from Breton ploue. First attested in c. 1880s.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /pluk/
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Noun
[edit]plouc m or f by sense (plural ploucs)
- (informal, derogatory) hick, country bumpkin, yokel
- Synonym: paysan
- (informal, derogatory, figuratively) rube
- 1999, w:Anna Gavalda, “Permission”, in Je voudrais que quelqu'un m'attende quelque part, →ISBN:
- Mon frère, il ne dit jamais un pavillon, il dit une maison. Il trouve que le mot pavillon, ça fait plouc.
- My brother never says pavillon [detached suburban house], he always says maison [the general word for house]. He thinks the word pavillon sounds common.
- 2006, Virginie Despentes, “Impossible de violer cette femme…”, in w:fr:King Kong Théorie [King Kong Theory], w:Éditions Grasset, →ISBN, page 38:
- Jusque-là, je m'étais dit que j'avais bien encaissé, que j'avais la peau dure et autre chose à foutre dans la vie que laisser trois ploucs me traumatiser.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “plouc”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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