tire-bouchon

See also: tirebouchon

French

Alternative forms

• tirebouchon

Etymology

From tirer +‎ bouchon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiʁ.bu.ʃɔ̃/

Noun

tire-bouchon m (plural tire-bouchons)

1. corkscrew (to pull corks out of bottles)

Derived terms

• tire-bouchonner
• tirebouchonner

 

Descendants

• → Bulgarian: тирбушо́н (tirbušón)
• → Catalan: tirabuixó
• → Romanian: tirbușon
• → Ottoman Turkish: تیربوشون (tirbuşon), طرابشون (terabeşon); թիրպուշօն (tirbuşon) — Armeno-Turkish
  • Turkish: tirbuşon

Further reading

• “tire-bouchon” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
• “tire-bouchon” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
• “tire-bouchon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from French tire-bouchon.

Noun

tire-bouchon m (plural tire-bouchons)

1. (Jersey) corkscrew