galopin

Borrowed from French galopin.

galopin (plural galopins)

1. (Scotland, obsolete) A boy employed in a kitchen.

• Ling-pao, pongali

galopin

1. inflection of galopar:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative

galopin

1. genitive singular of galoppi

From galoper +‎ -in.

• IPA^(key): /ɡa.lɔ.pɛ̃/

galopin m (plural galopins)

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

     — Attends, attends, Riboudet, cria l'ecclésiastique d'une voix colère, je m'en vas aller te chauffer les oreilles, mauvais galopin!

     “You look out, Riboudet,” cried the priest in an angry voice; “I'll warm your ears, you imp!”

2. a half-sized Belgian beer-glass (12.5cl) used for tastings

• galopiner

• → English: galopin
• → Spanish: galopo
  • → Catalan: guilopo

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