flingue
Appearance
See also: flingué
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Probably borrowed from flinke, flingge, Bavarian variant of German Flinte.[1]
Noun
[edit]flingue m (plural flingues)
- (colloquial) shooter, pistol, gat (gun)
Derived terms
[edit]Verb
[edit]flingue
- inflection of flinguer:
References
[edit]- ^ “flinke” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
Further reading
[edit]- “flingue”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.