pataud
French edit
Pronunciation edit
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Adjective edit
pataud (feminine pataude, masculine plural patauds, feminine plural pataudes)
- lumbering, lumpish
- 2016, Gaël Faye, Petit Pays [Small Country]:
- Ana et moi étions perdus avec nos corps patauds, incapables de répondre aux questions que nos hôtes nous posaient en kinyarwanda.
- Ana and I were lost with our lumpish bodies, incapable of answering the questions our hosts asked us in Kinyarwanda.
Further reading edit
- “pataud”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.