salement

French

Etymology

sale +‎ -ment

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sal.mɑ̃/

Adverb

salement

1. dirty, dirtily
2. (slang) Intensitive adverb : very, really. (in a bad way) "J'ai été salement amoché par une crise néphrétique" (Gide, Letters) : "I've been really banged-up by renal crisis"
3. (slang) Related to the precedent (antiphrasis) : very, really (in a good way) " Faut acheter des sardines [...] C'est salement bon !" (Louis Pergaud, La Guerre des boutons) : "We got to buy sardines [...] It's really good !"

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• lamentes