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puer.

to stink, to smell (bad)

4 characters1 syllables approx.Français language

Meaning & usage

verb/pɥe//py.e/
  1. to stink, to smell (bad)

    intransitive
  2. to stink of

    transitive
    Cet homme pue l’ail.
  3. to be awful; to be repulsive

    figuratively · intransitive
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Old French puir (with a change in conjugation), from Vulgar Latin *putīre, from Classical Latin pūtēre (also with a change in conjugation), present active infinitive of pūteō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *puH-.

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