racaille
French
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editEtymology
editInherited from Old French rascaille (“outcast, rabble”), perhaps from rasque (“mud, filth, scab, dregs”), from Vulgar Latin *rasicō (“to scrape”). Cognate with English rascal.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editracaille f (plural racailles)
- (derogatory) people, mainly young, who engage in antisocial behaviour; rabble, riffraff; rascals
- 2005, a resident of an estate hit by rioting and the Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy:
- resident: Monsieur Sarkozy, est-ce que vous pouvez nous débarrasser de cette racaille ?
Sarkozy: Vous voulez qu’on vous débarrasse de cette racaille, on va le faire.- resident: Mr. Sarkozy, can you get rid of this rabble for us?
Sarkozy: You want us to get rid of this rabble? We're on the case.
- resident: Mr. Sarkozy, can you get rid of this rabble for us?
- Synonym: fripouille
- 2005, a resident of an estate hit by rioting and the Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy:
Further reading
edit- “racaille”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- “racaille” in Dico en ligne Le Robert.
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