potache

French

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔ.taʃ/

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Adjective

potache (plural potaches)

1. schoolboy, schoolboyish
   • 2019, Alain Damasio, chapter 1, in Les furtifs [The Stealthies], La Volte, →ISBN:

     À ce moment-ci de l’examen final, après soixante-dix-neuf semaines de formation où il m’a tout appris, il ne s’attendait pas, de ma part, à un aussi potache provocation.

     At this point, the moment of the final exam, after seventy-nine weeks of training in which he taught me everything, he was not expecting such a juvenile provocation from me.

Noun

potache m (plural potaches)

1. (colloquial) student, school kid

   blague de potache ― schoolboy prank

Further reading

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

Middle English

Noun

potache

1. Alternative form of potage