rouscailler

French

Etymology

From rousser +‎ Old French cailler (“to chat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁus.ka.je/

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Verb

rouscailler

1. (intransitive, colloquial) to grumble
2. (intransitive, slang) to chat, rap
   • 1829, Victor Hugo, Le dernier jour d'un condamné, section V:

     Ils m’apprennent à parler argot, à rouscailler bigorne, comme ils disent.

     They're teaching me to speak slang – to rap the lingo, as they put it.

Conjugation

Conjugation of rouscailler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	rouscailler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	rouscaillant /ʁus.ka.jɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		rouscaillé /ʁus.ka.je/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	rouscaille /ʁus.kaj/	rouscailles /ʁus.kaj/	rouscaille /ʁus.kaj/	rouscaillons /ʁus.ka.jɔ̃/	rouscaillez /ʁus.ka.je/	rouscaillent /ʁus.kaj/
	imperfect	rouscaillais /ʁus.ka.jɛ/	rouscaillais /ʁus.ka.jɛ/	rouscaillait /ʁus.ka.jɛ/	rouscaillions /ʁus.kaj.jɔ̃/	rouscailliez /ʁus.kaj.je/	rouscaillaient /ʁus.ka.jɛ/
	past historic2	rouscaillai /ʁus.ka.je/	rouscaillas /ʁus.ka.ja/	rouscailla /ʁus.ka.ja/	rouscaillâmes /ʁus.ka.jam/	rouscaillâtes /ʁus.ka.jat/	rouscaillèrent /ʁus.ka.jɛʁ/
	future	rouscaillerai /ʁus.kaj.ʁe/	rouscailleras /ʁus.kaj.ʁa/	rouscaillera /ʁus.kaj.ʁa/	rouscaillerons /ʁus.kaj.ʁɔ̃/	rouscaillerez /ʁus.kaj.ʁe/	rouscailleront /ʁus.kaj.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	rouscaillerais /ʁus.kaj.ʁɛ/	rouscaillerais /ʁus.kaj.ʁɛ/	rouscaillerait /ʁus.kaj.ʁɛ/	rouscaillerions /ʁus.ka.jə.ʁjɔ̃/	rouscailleriez /ʁus.ka.jə.ʁje/	rouscailleraient /ʁus.kaj.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	rouscaille /ʁus.kaj/	rouscailles /ʁus.kaj/	rouscaille /ʁus.kaj/	rouscaillions /ʁus.kaj.jɔ̃/	rouscailliez /ʁus.kaj.je/	rouscaillent /ʁus.kaj/
	imperfect2	rouscaillasse /ʁus.ka.jas/	rouscaillasses /ʁus.ka.jas/	rouscaillât /ʁus.ka.ja/	rouscaillassions /ʁus.ka.ja.sjɔ̃/	rouscaillassiez /ʁus.ka.ja.sje/	rouscaillassent /ʁus.ka.jas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	rouscaille /ʁus.kaj/	—	rouscaillons /ʁus.ka.jɔ̃/	rouscaillez /ʁus.ka.je/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

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