What does boudin in French mean?

What is the meaning of the word boudin in French? The article explains the full meaning, pronunciation along with bilingual examples and instructions on how to use boudin in French.

The word boudin in French means blood sausage, fat lump, draught excluder, chignon, sausage fingers, flange, white pudding, draught excluder, black pudding, yucky, icky, poo, sulk, pout, black pudding fair, black pudding market, peter out, fizzle out. To learn more, please see the details below.

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Meaning of the word boudin

blood sausage

nom masculin (charcuterie)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)
Pour le barbecue, tu veux du boudin ou des chipolatas ?
Do you want blood sausage or chipolatas for the barbecue?

fat lump

nom masculin (familier, insultant (fille grosse) (slang, pejorative)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)
Raoul se souvenait de Virginie comme d'un boudin alors que maintenant elle est mannequin pour une maison de haute couture.
Raoul remembered Virginia as a fat lump, but now she's a haute couture model.

draught excluder

nom masculin (objet long et cylindrique) (UK)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)
Il y a des boudins au bas des portes pour arrêter le vent.
There are draught excluders at the bottom of all the doors to keep the wind out.

chignon

nom masculin (coiffure : anglaise)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)
Pour ce film d'époque, la coiffeuse doit faire des boudins aux femmes.
For this period film, the hairdresser is giving all the women chignons.

sausage fingers

nom masculin (familier (gros doigt) (informal)

(plural noun: Noun always used in plural form--for example, "jeans," "scissors.")
Quelles vilaines mains, ses doigts sont des boudins.
What awful hands; he's got sausage fingers.

flange

nom masculin (partie intérieure de roue, mentonnet) (train wheel)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)
Le boudin de cette roue est usé par le contact avec l'intérieur des rails.
This wheel's flange is worn from contact with the inner rails.

white pudding

nom masculin (saucisse de viande blanche) (UK)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)
Le boudin blanc est typique des fêtes de fin d'année.

draught excluder

nom masculin (isolation de bas de porte) (UK)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)

black pudding

nom masculin (saucisse de porc au sang) (UK)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)
Le boudin noir est farci de sang d'animal préalablement cuisiné.

yucky, icky, poo

locution adjectivale (familier, enfantin (dégoûtant) (colloquial, infantile)

(adjective: Describes a noun or pronoun--for example, "a tall girl," "an interesting book," "a big house.")
Ne touche pas à ça : c'est caca boudin ! Je veux pas manger ça : c'est caca boudin !

sulk, pout

locution verbale (populaire (bouder)

(intransitive verb: Verb not taking a direct object--for example, "She jokes." "He has arrived.")
Ma fille a fait du boudin toute l'après-midi parce que je n'ai pas voulu lui acheter le jouet qu'elle voulait.

black pudding fair, black pudding market

nom féminin (marché célébrant le boudin)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)

peter out, fizzle out

locution verbale (familier (mal se dérouler)

(intransitive verb: Verb not taking a direct object--for example, "She jokes." "He has arrived.")

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