feutre
See also: feutré
English
Noun
feutre (plural feutres)
- Alternative form of fewter.
Verb
feutre (third-person singular simple present feutres, present participle feutring, simple past and past participle feutred)
- Alternative form of fewter.
Anagrams
Bourguignon
Etymology
From Latin futuo, cognate with foutre and fottere.
Verb
feutre
- (transitive, vulgar, slang) to do, to fuck around with, to dick around, to fritter, to tinker
- Quoi don qu'âles fôtant ?
- What the fuck are they doing?
Conjugation
Conjugation in Bourguignon
| infinitive | feutre | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gerund | feutant | |||||||
| auxiliary | aivoi | |||||||
| past participle | masculine | feminine | ||||||
| singular | feutu | feutue | ||||||
| plural | feutus | feutues | ||||||
| singular | plural | |||||||
| 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | |||
| indicative | je (j') / i* | tu | ai (el), ale | je (j') / i* | vos | ai (el), ales | ||
| present | feuts | feuts | feut | feutons | feutez | feutant | ||
| imperfect | feutoos | feutoos | feutoot | feuteins | feuteins | feuteint | ||
| preterite | feutis | feutis | feutit | feutirens | feutirens | feutirent | ||
| future | feutré | feutrés | feutré | feutrons | feutrez | feutront | ||
| conditional | feutroos | feutroos | feutroot | feutreins | feutreins | feutreint | ||
| subjunctive | que je (j') / qu'i* | que tu | qu'ai (el), qu'ale | que je (j') / qu'i* | que vos | qu'ai (el), qu'ales | ||
| present | feute | feutes | feute | feuteins | feuteins | feuteint | ||
| imperfect | feutisse | feutisses | feutisse | feutisseins | feutisseins | feutisseint | ||
| imperative | — | tu | — | je (j') / i* | vos | — | ||
| present | feut | feutons | feutez | |||||
| * je is found in Central and Eastern Burgundy, i is found in the Morvan and partially throughout the whole region | ||||||||
French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French feltre, from Frankish *filtir, from Proto-Germanic *filtizō, *felt. Cf. English felt, German Filz, Old English felt.
Pronunciation
Noun
feutre m (plural feutres)
- material made of matted fibres; felt
- felt hat; trilby (UK), fedora (US)
- felt-tip (pen)
- (papermaking) a couching fabric
- (saddlery) saddle padding for the comfort of horse and rider
Alternative forms
- (papermaking) flotre, flôtre
- (papermaking) fautre
Further reading
- “feutre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.