fougueux

From fougue +‎ -eux.

• IPA^(key): /fu.ɡø/

fougueux (feminine fougueuse, masculine plural fougueux, feminine plural fougueuses)

1. spirited, lively
   • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […]‎^[1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères; republished as Eleanor Marx, transl., Madame Bovary, 1886:

     — Un malheur arrive si vite! Prenez garde! Vos chevaux peut-être sont fougueux!

     An accident happens so easily. Be careful! Your horses perhaps are mettlesome.

2. enthusiastic

• fougueusement

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