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  2. Response to sneezing - Wikipedia

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    The first response means “God be with us”. The second response means "God be with you". The last means "May it go right", but might be a form of "God with us for a while". Gabh mo leithscéal "Excuse me" Italian: Salute! "Health!" Grazie "Thank you" (ironic) Che se ne va "That is going away" Japanese

  3. Glossary of French words and expressions in English

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    a close relationship or connection; an affair. The French meaning is broader; liaison also means "bond"' such as in une liaison chimique (a chemical bond) lingerie a type of female underwear. littérateur an intellectual (can be pejorative in French, meaning someone who writes a lot but does not have a particular skill). [35] louche

  4. Category:French slang - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "French slang" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Article 15 (idiom) G.

  5. List of pseudo-French words in English - Wikipedia

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    legerdemain (supposedly from, léger de main, literally, "light of hand") – sleight of hand, usually in the context of deception or the art of stage magic tricks. nom de plume – coined in the 19th century in English, on the pattern of nom de guerre, which is an actual French expression, where "nom de plume" is not. [1]

  6. Quebec French lexicon - Wikipedia

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    This slang is used as a parallel to the "like" word used by some American slang; the French word for "like", comme, may also be used. [example needed] These words appear often in the same sentence as the word tsé (tu sais = you know) as a form of slipped words within spoken structure.

  7. La petite mort - Wikipedia

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    La petite mort (French pronunciation: [la pətit mɔʁ]; lit. ' the little death ') is an expression that refers to a brief loss or weakening of consciousness, and in modern usage refers specifically to a post-orgasm sensation as likened to death. [1] The first attested use of the expression in English was in 1572 with the meaning of "fainting ...

  8. Franglais - Wikipedia

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    Franglais also refers to nouns coined from Anglo-Saxon roots or from recent English loanwords (themselves not always English in origin), often by adding -ing at the end of a popular word—e.g., un parking ('a car park or parking lot' is alternatively un stationnement in Canadian French, although stationnement means 'the action of parking or ...

  9. List of glossing abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Grammatical abbreviations are generally written in full or small caps to visually distinguish them from the translations of lexical words. For instance, capital or small-cap PAST (frequently abbreviated to PST) glosses a grammatical past-tense morpheme, while lower-case 'past' would be a literal translation of a word with that meaning.