fêlé

See also: fele, felé, fêle, felë, and -féle

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fɛ.le/ ~ /fe.le/
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Participle

fêlé (feminine fêlée, masculine plural fêlés, feminine plural fêlées)

  1. past participle of fêler

Adjective

fêlé (feminine fêlée, masculine plural fêlés, feminine plural fêlées)

  1. cracked
    • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […]‎[1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères; republished as Eleanor Marx, transl., Madame Bovary, 1886:
      Elle écoutait, dans un hébétement attentif, tinter un à un les coups fêlés de la cloche.
      She listened with dull attention to each stroke of the cracked bell.
    • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […]‎[2], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères; republished as Eleanor Marx, transl., Madame Bovary, 1886:
      […] la parole humaine est comme un chaudron fêlé où nous battons des mélodies à faire danser les ours, quand on voudrait attendrir les étoiles.
      […] human speech is like a cracked tin kettle, on which we hammer out tunes to make bears dance when we long to move the stars.
  2. (colloquial) crazy, crackpot
    Synonyms: déjanté, cinglé, taré

Noun

fêlé m (plural fêlés, feminine fêlée)

  1. (colloquial) crackpot, madman

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