touche-à-tout
French edit
Etymology edit
Univerbation of touche (“touches”, third-person singular present indicative of toucher (“to touch”)) + à (“to”) + tout (“everything”), literally “[who] touches everything”.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
touche-à-tout m or f by sense (plural touche-à-tout)
- (sometimes derogatory) jack of all trades
Further reading edit
- “touche-à-tout”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.