oiseux

Inherited from Middle French oyseux, from Old French oisos (“idle”), from Latin ōtiōsus (“idle”), derived from ōtium.

• IPA^(key): /wa.zø/

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oiseux (feminine oiseuse, masculine plural oiseux, feminine plural oiseuses)

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

     Non, pas de médicamentation oiseuse! du régime, voilà tout! des sédatifs, des émollients, des dulcifiants.

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2. idle

• oisif
  • oisiveté

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