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boudin.

blood sausage, black pudding

6 characters2 syllables approx.Français language

Meaning & usage

noun/bu.dɛ̃/
  1. blood sausage, black pudding

    masculine
  2. tube, ring

    masculine
  3. fatty, lardarse

    colloquial · derogatory · masculine
  4. ugly person (not necessarily obese)

    colloquial · derogatory · masculine
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Middle French boudin, from Old French boudin, of uncertain origin. Possibly from a root *bod- (“swollen”), possibly from Germanic, from Proto-Indo-European *bed- (“to swell”) (Pok. 96), from *bʰew- (“to swell”) (Pok. 98-102). This would suggest a connection with Proto-Germanic *paddǭ (“toad”). The derivation from Vulgar *botellinus, from botellus (“small sausage”), the diminutive form of botulus (“sausage, black pudding; intestine”) is disputed on phonological grounds; as the outcome of botellus is Old French boel (> modern boyau), this may instead require a Vulgar Latin *bolet(t)inus for boudin.

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