pied-bot

See also: pied bot

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pje.bo/
  • Audio (France (Lyon)):(file)

Noun

pied-bot m (plural pieds-bots)

  1. (derogatory) a person with a clubfoot, a club-footed person
    • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […]‎[1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:
      Redresser des pieds-bots! est-ce qu'on peut redresser les pieds-bots? c'est comme si l'on voulait, par exemple, rendre droit un bossu!
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Usage notes

Do not confuse with pied bot (“clubfoot”), the condition itself, written without an hyphen.

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