risque
See also: risqué
English
editEtymology 1
editPronunciation
editAdjective
editrisque (comparative more risque, superlative most risque)
- (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 2
editNoun
editrisque (countable and uncountable, plural risques)
Verb
editrisque (third-person singular simple present risques, present participle risquing, simple past and past participle risqued)
Anagrams
editFrench
editEtymology
editInherited from Middle French risque (first attested in 1578), borrowed from Old Italian risco (modern Italian rischio).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editrisque m (plural risques)
- risk
- Synonym: danger m
- 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.
Derived terms
editDescendants
editVerb
editrisque
- inflection of risquer:
Further reading
edit- “risque”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
editGalician
editVerb
editrisque
- inflection of riscar:
Portuguese
editVerb
editrisque
- inflection of riscar:
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