See also: risqué

EnglishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Borrowed from French risqué.

PronunciationEdit

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AdjectiveEdit

risque (comparative more risque, superlative most risque)

  1. (US) Alternative form of risqué
    • 2016 January 24, Les Chappell, “TV: Review: The Simpsons (Classic), “Natural Born Kissers” (season nine, episode 25, originally aired 05/17/1998)”, in The Onion AV Club[1]:
      But despite being the first episode of The Simpsons to feature Marge’s naked butt, there’s nothing particularly risque about any of the nudity—if anything, the pitchfork-wielding farmer’s threat of “ass-forking” feels the most over the line.

Etymology 2Edit

NounEdit

risque (countable and uncountable, plural risques)

  1. Obsolete spelling of risk

VerbEdit

risque (third-person singular simple present risques, present participle risquing, simple past and past participle risqued)

  1. Obsolete spelling of risk

AnagramsEdit

FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

Inherited from Middle French risque (first attested in 1578), borrowed from Old Italian risco (modern Italian rischio).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

risque m (plural risques)

  1. risk
    le risque d'une nouvelle guerre mondiale
    the risk of a new world war
    Je n'aime pas trop prendre des risques.
    I don't like taking risks that much.
    Synonym: danger m

Derived termsEdit

DescendantsEdit

  • Russian: риск (risk)
    • Armenian: ռիսկ (ṙisk)
  • Turkish: risk

VerbEdit

risque

  1. inflection of risquer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

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AnagramsEdit

PortugueseEdit

VerbEdit

risque

  1. inflection of riscar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative