pucer

English

Adjective

pucer

1. comparative form of puce: more puce
   • 1996, Jilly Cooper, Appassionata:

     Resplendent in puce velvet to match her face, she was sitting beyond George. She turned even pucer when she saw Trevor's little furry face emerging from Flora's dark blue shirt to lick his mistress on the chin.

French

Etymology

From puce +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /py.se/

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Verb

pucer

1. to chip (insert a chip under the skin)

Conjugation

This verb is part of a group of -er verbs for which 'c' is softened to a 'ç' before the vowels 'a' and 'o'.

Conjugation of pucer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	pucer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	puçant /py.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		pucé /py.se/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	puce /pys/	puces /pys/	puce /pys/	puçons /py.sɔ̃/	pucez /py.se/	pucent /pys/
	imperfect	puçais /py.sɛ/	puçais /py.sɛ/	puçait /py.sɛ/	pucions /py.sjɔ̃/	puciez /py.sje/	puçaient /py.sɛ/
	past historic2	puçai /py.se/	puças /py.sa/	puça /py.sa/	puçâmes /py.sam/	puçâtes /py.sat/	pucèrent /py.sɛʁ/
	future	pucerai /py.sʁe/	puceras /py.sʁa/	pucera /py.sʁa/	pucerons /py.sʁɔ̃/	pucerez /py.sʁe/	puceront /py.sʁɔ̃/
	conditional	pucerais /py.sʁɛ/	pucerais /py.sʁɛ/	pucerait /py.sʁɛ/	pucerions /py.sə.ʁjɔ̃/	puceriez /py.sə.ʁje/	puceraient /py.sʁɛ/
(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	puce /pys/	puces /pys/	puce /pys/	pucions /py.sjɔ̃/	puciez /py.sje/	pucent /pys/
	imperfect2	puçasse /py.sas/	puçasses /py.sas/	puçât /py.sa/	puçassions /py.sa.sjɔ̃/	puçassiez /py.sa.sje/	puçassent /py.sas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	puce /pys/	—	puçons /py.sɔ̃/	pucez /py.se/	—
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).

Derived terms

• puçage

Further reading

• “pucer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.