touché

Borrowed from French touché, past participle of toucher (“to touch”). More at touch.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtuː.ʃeɪ/, /tuːˈʃeɪ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /tuːˈʃeɪ/
• Rhymes: -eɪ

touché

1. (fencing) An acknowledgement of a hit.
2. (transferred sense) An acknowledgement of the validity, appropriateness, or superiority of an opponent's argument or statement in a discussion.
   • 1986, John Hughes, Pretty in Pink:

     Duckie: You know what an older woman does for me?
     Iona: Changes your diapers?
     Duckie: Touché.
     

• Te-chou

• IPA^(key): /tu.ʃe/

• Audio:

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Audio (France (Somain)):

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touché (feminine touchée, masculine plural touchés, feminine plural touchées)

1. past participle of toucher

touché

1. (Can we clean up⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (Canadian football) A six-point score occurring when the ball enters possession of a team's player in the opponent's end zone.

• choute

From French toucher (“to touch”).

touché

1. to touch

• Alcée Fortier, Louisiana Folktales

Unadapted borrowing from French touché. Piecewise doublet of tocado.

touché!

1. touché

• IPA^(key): /tuˈʃe/ [t̪uˈʃe]
• Rhymes: -e

touché m or f (masculine and feminine plural touchés)

1. (fencing) touché

• Manuel Seco; Olimpia Andrés; Gabino Ramos (3 August 2023), “touché”, in Diccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA [BBVA Foundation]