roué

See also: roue

English

Alternative forms

• roue

Etymology

Borrowed from French roué. Doublet of rotate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹuːeɪ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -uːeɪ

Noun

roué (plural roués)

1. A debauched or lecherous person.

   Synonyms: rake; see also Thesaurus:libertine

   • 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 20, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume I, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849, →OCLC, page 185:

     A taste and knowledge of wines and cookery appears to them to be the sign of an accomplished roué and manly gentleman.

   • 2005 August 14, Richard Brooks, Stuart Wavell, “Rumpole takes a great big spanking”, in The Sunday Times:

     The old roué, twice married and patriarch of an extended family, never concealed the fact that he was “a ladies’ man”.

   • 2014 August 27, Stephanie Zacharek, “The Last of Robin Hood Wrestles with a Star's Underage Love”, in The Village Voice‎^[1], archived from the original on 2014-09-03:

     Would you trust him alone with your young daughter? Certainly not, though who could blame her for being captivated? In this day and age especially, a good roué is hard to find.

Translations

A debauched or lecherous person

• French: roué (fr) m
• German: Roué (de) m, Lustmolch (de) m
• Hungarian: kujon (hu), élvhajhász (hu)
• Portuguese: debochado (pt) m
• Swedish: rumlare (sv)

Anagrams

• Euro, Euro-, euro, ouer, ureo-

French

Etymology

Past participle of rouer (“to break upon a wheel; to beat harshly”), from the belief that such individuals deserve such a punishment. Rouer derives from the Latin rota (“wheel”), from Proto-Indo-European *Hreth₂- (“to run, to roll”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁwe/

• Audio:

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Noun

roué m (plural roués, feminine rouée)

1. roué (debauched or lecherous person)

Participle

roué (feminine rouée, masculine plural roués, feminine plural rouées)

1. past participle of rouer

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• euro

Norman

Alternative forms

• rouai (Jersey)
• rwe (Sark)

Etymology

From Old French roi, from Latin rēx, rēgem, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs (“ruler, king”).

Noun

roué m (plural roués)

1. (France) king

Coordinate terms

• ranne (“queen”)

Related terms

• reyoume (“kingdom”)