tripotée

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁi.pɔ.te/
• Homophones: tripoté, tripotées, tripotés
• Rhymes: -e

Etymology 1

Deverbal from tripoter (“to feel up”), from 1843. Sense of "horde" or "large quantity" from 1867.

Noun

tripotée f (plural tripotées)

1. (familiar) beating, thrashing, flogging, beatdown
2. horde, host, swarm (large quantity)

Derived terms

• flanquer une tripotée

 

Etymology 2

Participle.

Participle

tripotée f sg

1. feminine singular of tripoté

Further reading

• “tripotée”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.