pousse-pousse
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French
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- poussepousse (post-1990 spelling)
- pousse (short form)
Etymology
[edit]From pousser (“to push”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
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pousse-pousse m (plural pousse-pousse)
Descendants
[edit]- → Ottoman Turkish: پو̀سْپو̀سْ (puspus)
- ⇒ Turkish: çekçek
References
[edit]- ‘pousse-pousse’ in the Dictionnaire de l’Académie française (9th Edition).
Further reading
[edit]- “pousse-pousse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.