houspiller

French edit

Alternative forms edit

gouspiller (Norman)

Etymology edit

Inherited from Middle French houssepillier (“to mistreat by shaking or growling”) and Norman gouspiller (“to shake, thrash, ill-treat”), both from a root *housp-, *gousp- (“to scorn, scold, reproach”), from or akin to Old English hosp (“reproach, insult”), Old English ġehyspan (“to deride, scorn, mock, reproach”) (—Diez), or from Proto-West Germanic *husp, *husk, from Proto-Indo-European *kūd- (“to mock”).

Related to Old English husċ (“mockery, scorn, insult, derision”), Old High German hosc (“invective, censure, mockery, travesty”), Norwegian dialectal huta (“to shout at, treat contemptuously”). Related to English forhush.

Pronunciation edit

^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /us.pi.je/
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Verb edit

houspiller

to chide or scold someone harshly, usually accompanied by pulling and shaking, berate
to criticise
to rebuke, reprehend
to mistreat, torment, mob; to cause worry or distress

Conjugation edit

Conjugation of houspiller (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	compound	avoir + past participle
infinitive	simple	houspiller
present participle or gerund¹	simple	houspillant /us.pi.jɑ̃/
present participle or gerund¹	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		houspillé /us.pi.je/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	houspille /us.pij/	houspilles /us.pij/	houspille /us.pij/	houspillons /us.pi.jɔ̃/	houspillez /us.pi.je/	houspillent /us.pij/
	imperfect	houspillais /us.pi.jɛ/	houspillais /us.pi.jɛ/	houspillait /us.pi.jɛ/	houspillions /us.pij.jɔ̃/	houspilliez /us.pij.je/	houspillaient /us.pi.jɛ/
	past historic²	houspillai /us.pi.je/	houspillas /us.pi.ja/	houspilla /us.pi.ja/	houspillâmes /us.pi.jam/	houspillâtes /us.pi.jat/	houspillèrent /us.pi.jɛʁ/
	future	houspillerai /us.pij.ʁe/	houspilleras /us.pij.ʁa/	houspillera /us.pij.ʁa/	houspillerons /us.pij.ʁɔ̃/	houspillerez /us.pij.ʁe/	houspilleront /us.pij.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	houspillerais /us.pij.ʁɛ/	houspillerais /us.pij.ʁɛ/	houspillerait /us.pij.ʁɛ/	houspillerions /us.pi.jə.ʁjɔ̃/	houspilleriez /us.pi.jə.ʁje/	houspilleraient /us.pij.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	houspille /us.pij/	houspilles /us.pij/	houspille /us.pij/	houspillions /us.pij.jɔ̃/	houspilliez /us.pij.je/	houspillent /us.pij/
(simple tenses)	imperfect²	houspillasse /us.pi.jas/	houspillasses /us.pi.jas/	houspillât /us.pi.ja/	houspillassions /us.pi.ja.sjɔ̃/	houspillassiez /us.pi.ja.sje/	houspillassent /us.pi.jas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
(compound tenses)	pluperfect²	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	~~nous~~	~~vous~~	–
simple		—	houspille /us.pij/	—	houspillons /us.pi.jɔ̃/	houspillez /us.pi.je/	—
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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).