guimbarde

From French guimbarde.

guimbarde (plural guimbardes)

1. A Jew's harp.

• guimbard

From Occitan guimbarda, from guimbar (“to jump”), from Old Occitan guimar (“to leap”), possibly from a hypothetical Gothic *𐍅𐌹𐌼𐍉𐌽 (*wimōn, “to rise [?]”), which would be related to Old Saxon upwimōn (“to rise”), Old High German ūfwiumen (“to well or bubble up”) and/or Old High German wemōn (“to sway, fluctuate”), all ultimately related to Proto-Germanic *wīpaną (“to wrap, wind”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ɡɛ̃.baʁd/

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guimbarde f (plural guimbardes)

1. (music) Jew's harp

   Synonym: campurgne

2. (colloquial) banger (UK), old car

   la vieille guimbarde de l'inspecteur Colombo

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3. (historical) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
   • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […]‎^[1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:

     […] ; M. Guillaumin lui promettait des actions dans les tourbières de Grumesnil, et il rêvait d'établir un nouveau service de diligences entre Argueil et Rouen, qui ne tarderait pas, sans doute, à ruiner la guimbarde du Lion d'or, et qui, marchant plus vite, étant à prix plus bas et portant plus de bagages, lui mettrait ainsi dans les mains tout le commerce d'Yonville.

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• → Catalan: guimbarda
• → English: guimbarde
• → Spanish: guimbarda

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