schlass

French

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃlas/ ~ /ʃlɑs/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Alemannic German schlass (“soft”, especially of melting snow; also “languid, weak”). Futher origin unknown. Perhaps distantly related with English sleep and slack. The word is attested in Switzerland and may have been borrowed there. Whether it is also native in Alsace seems unclear; it is at any rate not in the Wörterbuch der elsässischen Mundarten.

Adjective

schlass (feminine schlasse or schlass, masculine plural schlass, feminine plural schlasses or schlass)

  1. (colloquial) very drunk
    Synonyms: ivre, saoul, imbibé, aviné
    • Georges Simenon, Maigret at Picratt's:
      C'est ce que j'ai cru comprendre. J'étais déjà schlass à ce moment-là.
      That's what I thought I understood. I was drunk by then.
  2. (colloquial) exhausted, very tired
    Synonyms: crevé, fourbu, épuisé, claqué

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English slash.

Noun

schlass m (invariable)

  1. (slang) knife
    Synonym: couteau

Further reading

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