parlez vous

English

Etymology

From French parlez-vous français? (“do you speak French?”).

Verb

parlez vous (third-person singular simple present parlez vouses, present participle parlez vousing, simple past and past participle parlez voused)

1. (humorous) To speak a foreign language, particularly French.
   • 1980, Billy Joel, Don’t Ask Me Why, Columbia Records:

     Now your ghosts have gone away […] Now you, “parlez vous francais”

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:parlez vous.

Synonyms

• parleyvoo
• parley-vous