poivrot
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pwa.vʁo/
Noun
poivrot m (plural poivrots, feminine poivrote)
- drunkard
- 1980, “Jojo le Projo”, in Assez !, performed by Claude Nougaro:
- Jojo, c'était comme un frère/Avant qu'il soit alcoolo/Avant qu'il devienne poivrot
- Jojo, he was like a brother/Before he was an alcoholic/Before he became a drunkard
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Further reading
- “poivrot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.