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[ruby ferry]

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[white kraken]

boloss:

Le Larousse a choisi de le définir comme désignant "une personne naïve ou peu courageuse, ou complètement ridicule, voire stupide". Utilisé dans une phrase, ça donne : "Tu nous as lâchés au dernier moment, t'es qu'un bolos." Jusqu'ici, tout va bien.
https://www.lemonde.fr/big-browser/article/2015/05/18/bolos-boloss-ou-bolosse-une-querelle-orthographique_5999186_4832693

[stark niche]

mercii, tu connais peut-être le mot 'neuil' ?

[south haven]

you sure it wasn't "un œil"?

[stark niche]

i am

[south haven]

context might help because I have no idea

[stark niche]

it was used along with boloss

it was on tiktok, i think "neuille" is like the femals version idk

[south haven]

sorry I don't know

[stark niche]

https://www.tiktok.com/@replay_podcast34/video/7292049182334930209?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc

mabye this helps idkk

[south haven]

hm

[stark niche]

i think its an insult mabye idk

[south haven]

sounds like it should be "tête de nœud" but unsure why he says it like that, maybe because he realises mid-sentence that it's vulgar

or making a pun

might as well be a streamer's idiosyncrasy since he's being goofy as hell lol

[stark niche]

nono i saw it on many tiktoks

its not just him

[south haven]

well, it's not France French so maybe I'm missing something, but my money is on the fact that this was popularised as a meme

I'm not on TikTok much so I can't really tell

[white kraken]

neuille means nœud

[south haven]

huh? since when? :D

[white kraken]

not sure, but apparently they're the same in slang

https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/neuille

[south haven]

yeah I just saw that

I should have checked right away tbh, my bad

as a French I've never heard that and the example is from Twitch so it could be recent still

[white kraken]

it seems to just be one guy if you search it up and go to images

[stark niche]

idk i saw it mostly with "neuil" idk if that makes a difference its pobably just the masculine version i guess

[south haven]

doubt it, it's slang so the spelling isn't fixed is all