poule
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Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from French poule, from Latin pullus, pulla.
Noun edit
poule (plural poules)
- A girl, a young woman, especially seen as promiscuous; a slut. [from 1920s]
- 1926, Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises, Folio Society, published 2008, page 40:
- It was a warm spring night and I sat at a table on the terrace of the Napolitain after Robert had gone, watching […] the poules going by, singly and in pairs, looking for the evening meal.
- 2000, J. G. Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 369:
- ‘Where are the Delages taking you?’ ‘Dinner at…somewhere terribly smart. They'll pretend I'm a poule they picked up in the street.’
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
poule (plural poules)
Anagrams edit
Bourguignon edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
poule f (plural poules)
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Verb edit
poule
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
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poule m (plural poules)
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Old French, from Vulgar Latin pulla, feminine form of Latin pullus.
Noun edit
poule f (plural poules)
- hen (female chicken)
- Ma poule vient de pondre un œuf.
- My hen has just laid an egg.
- (slang) chick, bird (woman)
Derived terms edit
- ça roule, ma poule
- chair de poule
- lait de poule
- mère poule
- nid de poule
- papa poule
- poule au pot
- poule aux œufs d’or
- poule de bruyère
- poule des bois
- poule des coudriers
- poule d’eau
- poule d’Inde
- poule faisane
- poule mouillée
- poule perdrix
- poule pondeuse
- poule sultane
- quand les poules auront des dents
- se coucher avec les poules
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Dutch: poelepetaat (from poule pintade)
- → English: poule
See also edit
Etymology 2 edit
Uncertain.
Noun edit
poule f (plural poules)
- (card games) pool
- pool, group (stage of a competition before the knockout stages)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → English: pool
Further reading edit
- “poule”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams edit
Norman edit
Etymology edit
From Old French poule, from Vulgar Latin pulla, feminine form of Latin pullus (“rooster”).
Noun edit
poule f (plural poules)
Synonyms edit
Derived terms edit
- hèrbe à poules (“annual meadow grass”)
- lait d'poule (“milkshake”)
- poule dg'ieau (“moorhen”)
- poule d'ieau (“lumpsucker”)
- poulette (“pullet”)
- séthée ès poules (“bachelorette party, hen night, hen party”)
Old French edit
Etymology edit
From Vulgar Latin pulla, feminine form of pullus.
Noun edit
poule f (plural poules)
- hen (female chicken)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
References edit
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (poule, supplement)
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Noun edit
poule f (plural poules)
- pool stage