bouder French · revision 16024

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /bu.de/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''bouder'''^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is probably an expressive formation on a stem “bod-” expressing swelling (compare [[bedaine]], [[boudin]]), for the pouting lips of a sulky person.^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Grand Robert 2005)^(Petit Robert 2007)^(GLLF 1989) Diez and Littré gathered Romance and dialect forms with this stem: Rouchi “boder” “to swell”, Provençal “boudenflá” “to puff up”, Piedmontese ''fé 'l bodou“ “to stick out the lower lip”.^(Littré 1873) Guiraud proposed a Gallo-Roman ”*bullitare“ or ”*bobitare'', from [[la|bulla|t=bubble]].^(DHLF 1992)^(Grand Robert 2005) Wiktionary relates the stem to Germanic words for swelling, such as [[en|bud]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The verb is recorded about 1350;^(DHLF 1992)^(Grand Robert 2005) a 15th-century ''Passion'' has ''Par ma foy vous ne boudez mie'', you are not holding back at all.^(Littré 1873)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ ''Bouder'' is to put on a sullen look, pouting, at first intransitively and, from 1718 with an object (''il me boude''), and by extension to shun something (''bouder les distractions'', ''ne pas bouder son plaisir'').^(DHLF 1992)^(Petit Robert 2007) Metaphorically it is used of things that work badly, and in horticulture and oyster farming of what grows poorly.^(DHLF 1992) Derivatives are ''boudeur'' (1680), ''bouderie'' (1690) and ''boudoir'' (before 1730), jokingly “a room to sulk in”, a small elegant room where a lady could withdraw, Bruant (1901) has the pun ''faire du boudin''.^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989) In African French ''bouder'' can mean to be angry with someone.^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 1350 – First record.^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1680 – ''Boudeur''.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

+ * 1690 – ''Bouderie''.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

+ * 1718 – Transitive use.^(DHLF 1992)

+ * Before 1730 – ''Boudoir''.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

+ * 1901 – ''Faire du boudin'' in Bruant.^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|sulk]], pout: ''bouder dans son coin''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(transitive)'' To be in a huff with (someone): ''il me boude''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To shun, keep away from: ''le public a boudé ce film'', ''ne pas bouder son plaisir''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(of things)'' To be sluggish, ''(horticulture)'' to grow poorly.^(DHLF 1992)^(Petit Robert 2007)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[bouderie]]

+ * [[boudeur]]

+ * [[boudoir]]

+ * [[boudeur]]

+ * [[bouderie]]

+ * [[boudoir]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[boudin]]

+ * [[bedaine]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}