joual

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Canadian French joual.

Noun

joual (uncountable)

1. (Canada) The dialect of working-class Quebecers.
   • 2011, Erin Hurley, National Performance: Representing Quebec from Expo 67 to Céline Dion‎^[1], University of Toronto Press, →ISBN:

     As inflammatory as what the joual ‘is’—a mixed, oral sociolect—is its function as a kind of self-image for Québécois. In Jean-Claude Germain's terms, joual ‘bears in its flesh the scars of life and history.’

French

Etymology

Pronunciation spelling of the joual pronunciation of cheval (“horse”) (/ʃəval/ → /ʒwal/).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʒwal/

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• Homophone: joualle

Noun

joual m (uncountable)

1. (Canada) joual
   • 2023 June, Éric Delhaye, “Au Québec, in French, please !”, in Le Monde diplomatique, page 27:

     Pilier de cette scène, Loud manie aussi le joual (le parler québécois populaire) et assume de jongler avec un lexique composite : […]

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Adjective

joual (feminine jouale, masculine plural jouals, feminine plural jouales)

1. (relational) joual

   des mots jouals ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Derived terms

• joualiser

Further reading

• “joual”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.