torcher
English edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈtɔɹt͡ʃɚ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈtɔːt͡ʃə(ɹ)/
- Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)tʃə(ɹ)
Audio (US) (file) - Homophone: torture
- Hyphenation: torch‧er
Noun edit
torcher (plural torchers)
- One who torches something.
- The torchers of buildings must be dealt with.
- (obsolete) One who gives light with a torch, or as if with a torch.
- c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], line 162:
- Ere twice the horses of the sun shall bring
Their fiery torcher his diurnal ring, […]
- (music) A torch song
- 1988 August 26, Neil Tesser, “Montgomery, Plant & Stritch”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
- […] their set includes a Patsy Cline torcher and reaches some sort of peak with a 29-song Irving Berlin medley.
- (science fiction) The pilot of a spacecraft propelled by a torch drive (a spacecraft engine which produces thrust by nuclear fusion).
References edit
- Jesse Sheidlower, editor (2001–2024), “torcher, n.”, in Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction.
French edit
Etymology edit
From torche + -er. The vulgar sense is from the notion of wiping one's posterior after defecating.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
torcher
- to wipe with a cloth to remove dirt
- Torcher les assiettes.
- To wipe the plates.
- to flare (to burn off excess gas at a petroleum drilling site)
- (slang) to churn out
- Synonym: bâcler
- (vulgar, reflexive) not to care, not to give a fuck
- Je me torche de ce qu’il en pense!
- I don't give a fuck what he thinks about it!
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of torcher (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | torcher | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | torchant /tɔʁ.ʃɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | torché /tɔʁ.ʃe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | torche /tɔʁʃ/ |
torches /tɔʁʃ/ |
torche /tɔʁʃ/ |
torchons /tɔʁ.ʃɔ̃/ |
torchez /tɔʁ.ʃe/ |
torchent /tɔʁʃ/ |
| imperfect | torchais /tɔʁ.ʃɛ/ |
torchais /tɔʁ.ʃɛ/ |
torchait /tɔʁ.ʃɛ/ |
torchions /tɔʁ.ʃjɔ̃/ |
torchiez /tɔʁ.ʃje/ |
torchaient /tɔʁ.ʃɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | torchai /tɔʁ.ʃe/ |
torchas /tɔʁ.ʃa/ |
torcha /tɔʁ.ʃa/ |
torchâmes /tɔʁ.ʃam/ |
torchâtes /tɔʁ.ʃat/ |
torchèrent /tɔʁ.ʃɛʁ/ | |
| future | torcherai /tɔʁ.ʃə.ʁe/ |
torcheras /tɔʁ.ʃə.ʁa/ |
torchera /tɔʁ.ʃə.ʁa/ |
torcherons /tɔʁ.ʃə.ʁɔ̃/ |
torcherez /tɔʁ.ʃə.ʁe/ |
torcheront /tɔʁ.ʃə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | torcherais /tɔʁ.ʃə.ʁɛ/ |
torcherais /tɔʁ.ʃə.ʁɛ/ |
torcherait /tɔʁ.ʃə.ʁɛ/ |
torcherions /tɔʁ.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
torcheriez /tɔʁ.ʃə.ʁje/ |
torcheraient /tɔʁ.ʃə.ʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | torche /tɔʁʃ/ |
torches /tɔʁʃ/ |
torche /tɔʁʃ/ |
torchions /tɔʁ.ʃjɔ̃/ |
torchiez /tɔʁ.ʃje/ |
torchent /tɔʁʃ/ |
| imperfect2 | torchasse /tɔʁ.ʃas/ |
torchasses /tɔʁ.ʃas/ |
torchât /tɔʁ.ʃa/ |
torchassions /tɔʁ.ʃa.sjɔ̃/ |
torchassiez /tɔʁ.ʃa.sje/ |
torchassent /tɔʁ.ʃas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | torche /tɔʁʃ/ |
— | torchons /tɔʁ.ʃɔ̃/ |
torchez /tɔʁ.ʃe/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “torcher”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition