plouc
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Breton plouk, from Breton ploue. First attested in c. 1880s..
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
plouc m or f by sense (plural ploucs)
- (informal, derogatory) hick, country bumpkin, yokel
- Synonym: paysan
- (informal, derogatory, figuratively) rube
- 1999, Anna Gavalda, “Permission”, in Je voudrais que quelqu'un m'attende quelque part, →ISBN:
- Mon frère, il ne dit jamais un pavillon, il dit une maison. Il trouve que le mot pavillon, ça fait plouc.
- My brother never says pavillon [detached suburban house], he always says maison [the general word for house]. He thinks the word pavillon sounds common.
See also edit
Further reading edit
- “plouc”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.