tiraillement
French
Etymology
From tirailler + -ment.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ti.ʁaj.mɑ̃/, /ti.ʁɑj.mɑ̃/
Audio (Paris) (file)
Noun
tiraillement m (plural tiraillements)
- pulling, tugging
- rumbling, growling (of the stomach)
- 1870, Jules Verne, chapter 9, in Vingt Mille Lieues Sous Les Mers [Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas], Paris: J. Hetzel et Compagnie, part 1:
- Ned Land, tourmenté par les tiraillements de son robuste estomac, se montait de plus en plus, et, malgré sa parole, je craignais véritablement une explosion, lorsqu’il se trouverait en présence de l’un des hommes du bord.
- Tortured by the growling of his well–built stomach, Ned Land was getting more and more agitated, and despite his word, I was in real fear of an explosion when he stood in the presence of one of the men on board.
- 1884, Joris-Karl Huysmans, chapter XI, in À rebours [Against the Grain]:
- […] des tiraillements d'estomac le rappelèrent à la réalité […]
- […] rumblings from his stomach recalled him to reality.
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Further reading
- “tiraillement”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.