fétu
See also: fetu
French
Etymology
Inherited from Late Latin festucum, from Latin festūca. Compare fétuque.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fe.ty/
Audio: (file)
Noun
fétu m (plural fétus)
- (countable) straw (dried stalk of a cereal plant)
- (figurative) straw (something proverbially worthless)
Derived terms
- fétu-en-cul
Related terms
Further reading
- “fétu” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
- “fétu”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.