/sɛ̃.ɡle/
Translation
nuts, crackers, mad
Word origin
The past participle of cingler ('to lash, to whip'), an altered form of sangler, from Latin cingula ('belt, girth'). The colloquial sense follows the same image as English 'a bit touched', someone who has taken a knock to the head.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- cingula
- English cognates
- cincture, precinct
Grammar
Examples
C' , cette .
That whole business is completely nuts.
cette .
I am going to go crackers if the neighbour puts that song on again.
.
You would have to be crackers to go out to sea in this weather.
, , .
We had a mad idea and, against all expectation, it worked.
paraissait au .
The project looked mad to begin with.
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