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Stroppy little mare
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Stroppy little mare
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How would you translate the above expression into French?
How would you translate the above expression into French?
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ombrageuse/farouche... pouliche/petite jument
Pour autant que l'absence de contexte puisse le permettre.
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Antoine Sauvage
: "(une) farouche petite jument" ?
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merci
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agree |
Saeed Najmi
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merci
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neutral |
Daryo
: calling a girl "une pouliche" is not an insult.
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merci
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Pouliche capricieuse
Stroppy would be bad tempered or argumentative, possibly single minded.
Wont to have its own way. single minded.
Wont to have its own way. single minded.
Example sentence:
Patricia was getting stroppy
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une petite salope d'humeur massacrante / brusque
stroppy
/ˈstrɒpi/
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adjective INFORMAL•BRITISH
bad-tempered and argumentative.
"Patricia was getting stroppy"
Calling a girl a "mare" is plain insulting, a variation of calling her a "bitch".
Peer comment(s):
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ormiston
: Why not just 'irascible', but the register is right
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Aussi. Merci!
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petite femelle râleuse
On a l'insulte avec "femelle"
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Prononc. et Orth. : [puliʃ]. Att. ds Ac. dep. 1694. Étymol. et Hist. 1. Av. 1589 « jeune jument » (J. A. de Baif, Passe tems, 2elivre ds Œuvres en rime, éd. Ch. Marty-Laveaux, t. IV, p. 300); ds les dict. à partir de Rich. 1680; 2. a) 1897 « femme impulsive, pétillante » (Bloy, Femme pauvre, p. 263); cf. 1938 (Colette, Jumelle, p. 53); b) 1901 fam. « fille » [une] pouliche entretenue (Lorrain, Phocas, p. 243).