connerie French · revision 16700

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=1845, Flaubert, Correspondance|origins=la cunnus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /kɔn.ʁi/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''connerie''' ''f'' (plural conneries)^(Wiktionary)

+ Recorded as ''conn'ri''' in 1865.^(TLFi)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|fr|con|-erie]].^(TLFi)^(Grand Robert 2005)^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary) The noun [[con]] continues [[la|cunnus|t=female genitals]] (about 1195–1200);^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989) its figurative use for a fool, as an adjective first recorded in a letter from Mérimée to Stendhal (1831), is probably a remaking of [[conard]] (13th century).^(TLFi)^(Petit Robert 2007) Rey calls the Latin word of obscure origin, comparing [[grc|κύσθος|tr=kústhos]].^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The Grand Robert finds it in Flaubert's correspondence (1845), probably with an erotic meaning.^(Grand Robert 2005)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The TLFi's first record is ''conn'ri''' in the ''Chanson de Mouchebœuf'' (1865), quoted by Lorédan Larchey in 1873.^(TLFi) The GLLF dates its common senses to Bauche's dictionary of popular French (1920), and Barbusse uses ''des conneries'' for foolish talk.^(GLLF 1989) Familiar and vulgar, it is now in very wide use for any stupid act or remark, Prévert's ''Quelle connerie la guerre'' and Michel Audiard's film dialogue made it famous.^(Petit Robert 2007)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1831 – ''Con'' “idiot”, Mérimée.^(TLFi)

+ * 1845 – ''Connerie'', Flaubert.^(Grand Robert 2005)

+ * 1865 – ''Conn'ri''', ''Chanson de Mouchebœuf''.^(TLFi)

+ * 1920 – Recorded by Bauche.^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # ''(familiar, vulgar)'' [[m|en|stupidity]], idiocy.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(familiar, vulgar)'' A stupid act or remark; a blunder: ''faire, dire des conneries'', ''arrête tes conneries''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(TLFi)

+ # ''(familiar, vulgar)'' Nonsense, [[m|en|rubbish]]: ''tout ça c'est des conneries''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[con]]

+ * [[conard]]

+ * [[connard]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}