merdaille

French

Etymology

From merde with the suffix -aille.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɛʁ.daj/

Noun

merdaille f (plural merdailles)

  1. (derogatory) a group of irritating children
    • 1946, Marcel Arnac, Le Brelan de joie‎[1], Collection Athêna-Luxe, page 30:
      Et les trois commères de s’en aller, rouges comme nuit de noces, resserrées du bas et moquées par toute la merdaille.
      And the three gossips left, red like a wedding night, tight at their bottoms & mocked by all the little shits.
  2. (by extension) a group of contemptible & inferior people; scum
  3. (rare, derogatory) a contemptible individual

Verb

merdaille

  1. inflection of merdailler:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

References

“merdaille”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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