emmerder French · revision 17650

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=before 1436, Glossaire de Salins|origins=la merda}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.de/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''emmerder'''^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|fr|en-|merde|-er]].^(TLFi)^(Wiktionary)^(Grand Robert 2005)^(FEW|6/2, 25a) The noun continues [[la|merda|t=dung, excrement]].^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989) Compare [[it|merda]] and [[es|mierda]].^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Its first record, the ''Glossaire de Salins'' (before 1436), has the literal sense “to cover with excrement”, now obsolete.^(TLFi)^(Petit Robert 2007)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The figurative senses appear in the underworld memoirs of the late 1820s: “to scorn someone, not care a rap for him” (1828–29, ''je l'em... lui et tout le régiment'') and “to annoy someone with fuss or talk” (1830, in a supplement to Vidocq's memoirs).^(TLFi)^(Petit Robert 2007) The GLLF, after Larchey, dates these senses to 1864.^(GLLF 1989) The adjective ''emmerdant'', boring or annoying, is in the Goncourts' ''Journal'' in 1857, and [[emmerdeur]] in 1866.^(TLFi)

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+ The pronominal ''s'emmerder'' means to be bored stiff, as in a Goncourt quip of 1886, and also to take great trouble over something (''on ne va pas s'emmerder avec ça'').^(TLFi)^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary) ''Je t'emmerde'' is a vulgar way of telling someone to get lost.^(Wiktionary)^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * Before 1436 – “To cover with excrement”, in the ''Glossaire de Salins''.^(TLFi)

+ * 1828–29 – “To scorn someone”.^(TLFi)

+ * 1830 – “To annoy”.^(TLFi)

+ * 1857 – ''Emmerdant'' in the Goncourts.^(TLFi)

+ * 1866 – ''Emmerdeur''.^(TLFi)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # ''(vulgar)'' To [[m|en|annoy]], [[m|en|bother]] (someone) intensely: ''arrête de m'emmerder''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(vulgar)'' To not care about, to scorn: ''je t'emmerde'', get lost.^(Wiktionary)^(TLFi)

+ # ''S'emmerder'': to be bored stiff.^(Wiktionary)^(TLFi)

+ # ''S'emmerder à, avec'': to go to a lot of trouble over: ''on ne va pas s'emmerder avec ça''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(obsolete)'' To soil with excrement.^(TLFi)^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[emmerde]]

+ * [[emmerdement]]

+ * [[emmerdeur]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[merde]]

+ * [[démerder]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}