touché

See also: touche and tòuchè

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French touché, past participle of toucher (“to touch”). More at touch.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtuː.ʃeɪ/, /tuːˈʃeɪ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /tuːˈʃeɪ/
• Rhymes: -eɪ

Interjection

touché

1. (fencing) An acknowledgement of a hit.
2. (transferred sense) An acknowledgement of the validity, appropriateness, or superiority of an opponent's argument or statement in a discussion.
   • 1986, John Hughes, Pretty in Pink:

     Duckie: You know what an older woman does for me?
     Iona: Changes your diapers?
     Duckie: Touché.
     

Translations

fencing: acknowledgement of a hit

• Arabic: مَلْمُوس (malmūs)
• Catalan: touché (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 有了 (zh) (yǒule)

• Finnish: touché (fi)
• French: touché (fr) m
• Hebrew: נגוּע m (nagúa)
• Hungarian: tus (hu)
• Japanese: トウシュ (toushu)
• Korean: 투셰 (tusye)
• Marathi: टूशे (ṭūśe)
• Polish: trafienie (pl)
• Portuguese: touché (pt)
• Russian: туше́ (ru) (tušé)
• Spanish: touché
• Swedish: touché (sv)

acknowledgement — see also you're right

• Arabic: أَصَبْتَ (ʔaṣabta), مَعَكَ حَقّ (maʕaka ḥaqq)
• Catalan: touché (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 不錯 / 不错 (zh) (bùcuò), 說得對 / 说得对 (shuōdeduì)

• Czech: touché (cs), zásah (cs), trefa (cs)
• Dutch: touché (nl)
• Finnish: naulan kantaan
• French: touché (fr)
• German: touché
• Hungarian: touché (hu), jogos (hu), ott a pont
• Italian: touché (it)
• Japanese: 一本取られた (いっぽんとられた, ippon torareta)
• Portuguese: touché (pt)
• Russian: туше́ (ru) (tušé)
• Spanish: touché, buen punto
• Swedish: touché (sv)

Anagrams

• Te-chou

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tu.ʃe/

• Audio:

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Audio (France (Somain)):

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• Audio (France (Agen)):

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Participle

touché (feminine touchée, masculine plural touchés, feminine plural touchées)

1. past participle of toucher

Noun

touché

1. (Can we clean up⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (Canadian football) A six-point score occurring when the ball enters possession of a team's player in the opponent's end zone.

Anagrams

• choute

Louisiana Creole

Etymology

From French toucher (“to touch”).

Verb

touché

1. to touch

References

• Alcée Fortier, Louisiana Folktales

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French touché. Piecewise doublet of tocado.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /tuˈʃe/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /tuˈʃe/, /tuˈʃɛ/

Interjection

touché!

1. touché

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tuˈʃe/ [t̪uˈʃe]
• Rhymes: -e

Adjective

touché m or f (masculine and feminine plural touchés)

1. (fencing) touché

Further reading

• Seco, Manuel; Andrés, Olimpia; Ramos, Gabino (2023), “touché”, in Diccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA