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  2. Glossary of French words and expressions in English

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    The expression is found in John Latey's 1878 English translation: "Ah! Monsieur Jackal, you were right when you said, 'Seek the woman.'" The phrase was adopted into everyday English use and crossed the Atlantic by 1909. [14] chez at the house of: often used in the names of restaurants and the like; Chez Marie = "Marie's". chic stylish. Chignon ...

  3. Verlan - Wikipedia

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    Verlan (pronounced ⓘ) is a type of argot in the French language, featuring inversion of syllables in a word, and is common in slang and youth language. It rests on a long French tradition of transposing syllables of individual words to create slang words.

  4. 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.

  5. Patois - Wikipedia

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    Patois (/ ˈ p æ t w ɑː /, pl. same or / ˈ p æ t w ɑː z /) [1] is speech or language that is considered nonstandard, although the term is not formally defined in linguistics.As such, patois can refer to pidgins, creoles, dialects or vernaculars, but not commonly to jargon or slang, which are vocabulary-based forms of cant.

  6. Fais do-do - Wikipedia

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    "She'd go to the cry room, give the baby a nipple and say, 'Fais do-do.' She'd want the baby to go to sleep fast, 'cause she's worried about her husband dancing with somebody else out there." [citation needed] "Do-do" itself is a hypocoristic shortening of the French verb dormir (to sleep), used primarily in speaking to small children. The ...

  7. Category:French slang - Wikipedia

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  8. 20 iconic slang words from Black Twitter that shaped pop culture

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    Stacker compiled a list of 20 slang words popularized from Black ... to supposedly new languages actually derived from Black English. ... during an interview on Power 105.1 The Breakfast Club.

  9. Quebec French profanity - Wikipedia

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    Sheila Fischman's translation of La Guerre, yes Sir! (published under that title in French and English and meaning roughly "War, you bet!"), by Roch Carrier, leaves many sacres in the original Quebec French, since they have no real equivalent in English. She gives a brief explanation and history of these terms in her introduction, including a ...