trouille
See also: trouillé
French
Etymology 1
Old French troillier (“to grind”) (from truil, troil (“grape press”)) or Dutch drol (“to go to stool", "dejection”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʁuj/
Noun
trouille f (plural trouilles)
- (colloquial) fear
Derived terms
- trouillard
- trouillomètre
Etymology 2
Probably from trouille (“fear”), possibly under influence of truie.
Noun
trouille f (plural trouilles)
- (slang, dated) a fat or dirty woman, a shameless woman
Further reading
- “trouille”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.