goujat
Appearance
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Probably dialectal: Lorrain goujart, or Occitan gojat, both two at sense of “young man” (f. gouge), but the first meaning could still be “young female”; possibly from Latin gaudium.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]goujat m (plural goujats, feminine goujate)
- boor, churl
- 1886, Léon Bloy, chapter XXI, in Le Désespéré:
- Véronique Cheminot, […] était une splendide goujate que dix années, au moins, de prostitution sur vingt-cinq n’avaient pu flétrir.
- Véronique Cheminot, […] was boorish yet stunningly beautiful; ten years, at least, of prostitution in her twenty-five years of life had not been able to lessen her charm.
- 1899, Eugène Le Roy, chapter VI, in Jacquou le Croquant:
- Mais, pour dire le vrai, ça n’en prenait pas le chemin : plus ça allait, plus ce goujat prenait de la maîtrise dans la maison, par la folie de la Mathive.
- But, to tell the truth, it did not turn out that way: as time went on, that boor held more and more sway over the household, because of La Mathive's foolishness.
- 1924, Emmanuel Bove, Mes Amis[1]:
- Henri Billard était un goujat. Jamais il ne me rendrait les cinquante francs. C’est toujours ainsi que le monde vous récompense.
- Henri Billard was a boor. He would never give me back the fifty francs. This is the kind of thanks you get.
- (archaic, military) dogsbody, lackey
- 1853, “Préface”, in Alfred Morel-Fatio, transl., Vie de Lazarille de Tormès:
- Aux chevaliers copiés sur les nôtres, toujours nobles et généreux, voués à un idéal inaccessible, aux forêts fraîches et profondes, à ce monde imaginaire et fantastique succèdent et s’associent […] le goujat d’armée, […]
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Derived terms
[edit]Adjective
[edit]goujat (plural goujats)
Further reading
[edit]- “goujat”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Occitan
[edit]Noun
[edit]goujat m (plural goujats)
- Alternative form of gojat
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