bossu

From Old French boçu, equivalent to bosse (“hump”) +‎ -u.

• IPA^(key): /bɔ.sy/

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bossu (feminine bossue, masculine plural bossus, feminine plural bossues)

1. hunchbacked, round-shouldered

bossu m (plural bossus, feminine bossue)

1. hunchback

   rire comme un bossu ― to laugh out loud (literally, “to laugh like a hunchback”)

   • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […]‎^[1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:

     Redresser des pieds-bots! est-ce qu'on peut redresser les pieds-bots? c'est comme si l'on voulait, par exemple, rendre droit un bossu!

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• “bossu”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

From Old French boçu (“hunchback”).

bossu m

1. (Jersey) humped

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈpossuː/

bossu

1. third-person singular present indicative of bossut

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈposːsuː/

bosˈsu

1. first/second-person dual imperative of bossut

bosˈsu

1. present participle of bossut