trouble-fête
French
Etymology
From Middle French trouble-feste, from Old French troblefeste. Compound of troubler + fête.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʁu.blə.fɛt/
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Noun
trouble-fête m or f by sense (plural trouble-fête or trouble-fêtes)
- spoilsport
Further reading
- “trouble-fête”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.