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/bɛ.tiz/
Translation
something silly, a daft thing to do; stupidity
Word origin
From bête ('beast'; also 'stupid') with the noun suffix -ise. Bête itself comes from Latin bestia ('beast'), so a bêtise is literally a piece of beastliness in the sense of witlessness.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- bestia
- English cognates
- beast, bestial
Grammar
Examples
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Do not do anything silly while I am away.
J' , .
I said something daft, forget it.
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The children have got up to something silly in the garden again.
C' .
It is a foolish thing to set off without a map.
, Cambrai menthe.
In the north of France, bêtises de Cambrai are mint sweets.
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