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masculine

/kɔ.ʃɔ̃/

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Translation

pig; (colloquial) filthy, mucky

Word origin

The origin is uncertain. Dictionaries most often explain it as onomatopoeic, from the call coch coch used to bring pigs in, which displaced the older word porc in everyday speech.

Origin: French
Root: coch

Grammar

Gendermasculine

Pluralcochons

Examples

fermier trentaine .

The farmer keeps about thirty pigs.

The pigs spend the day sleeping in the mud.

This pâté is made with free-range pork.

You eat like a pig.

cochonnes .

He tells filthy jokes at the table.

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This word is part of lesson 35.