dégueulasse
French
FWOTD – 29 February 2020
Alternative forms
- dégueu (clipping)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /de.ɡœ.las/
- Homophone: dégueulasses
Etymology 1
From dégueuler (“to vomit”) + -asse. Compare English vomitrocious.
Adjective
dégueulasse (plural dégueulasses)
- (slang) bloody disgusting; rank; yucky
- 2016 July 3, Olivier Philippe-Viela, "Mort de Michel Rocard: «La politique est dégueulasse»... Les cinq phrases à retenir de Michel Rocard", 20 Minutes, quoting a phrase from 1991 April 25 by Michel Rocard.
- Synonyms: infect, immonde
- La politique est dégueulasse, parce que les hommes qui la font la rendent dégueulasse.
- Politics is disgusting, because the men who practise it make it disgusting.
- (Quebec, slang) cool, wicked, amazing
Verb
dégueulasse
- inflection of dégueulasser:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Verb
dégueulasse
- first-person singular imperfect subjunctive of dégueuler
Further reading
- “dégueulasse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.