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barbotière nom {f} | duckpond(a pond populated by ducks) |
barbotine nom {f} | slip [slips]◼◼◼(ceramics: thin, slippery mix of clay and water) slush◼◼◻(flavored shaved ice served as a drink) tansy◼◻◻(plant of the genus Tanacetum) |
bec-en-sabot du Nil nom {m} | shoebill [shoebills]◼◼◼(wading bird) |
bien dans ses bottes adjectif | comfortable in one's own skin(confident) |
bouteille d'eau [bottle of water] nom {f} | water [waters]◼◼◼(serving of water) |
bruits de bottes nom {m pl} | sabre-rattling◼◼◼(display of military power as an implied threat) |
cabot nom {m} | pooch [pooches]◼◼◼(slang: dog) |
caboter verbe | coast [coasted, coasting, coasts]◼◼◼(to sail along a coast) |
caboteur nom | coaster [coasters]◼◼◼(merchant vessel that stays in coastal waters) |
cabotin nom {m} | ham [hams]◼◼◼(actor with an exaggerating style) |
cabotin adjectif | hammy [hammier, hammiest]◼◼◻(amateurish; characterized by overacting) |
cabotine nom {f} | ham [hams]◼◼◼(actor with an exaggerating style) |
cabotiner verbe | ham [hammed, hamming, hams]◼◼◼(overact) ham it up◼◻◻(performing arts: exaggerate one's emotions or movements) chew the scenery(To perform in an excessively emotional or exaggerated manner) |
chabot commun nom {m} | European bullhead(species) |
chat botté nom propre {m} | Puss in Boots◼◼◼(fairy tale) |
chercher une aiguille dans une botte de foin [verb] nom | needle in a haystack◼◼◼(idiomatic) |
cireur de bottes nom {m} | shoeshiner◼◼◼(person who shines shoes) |
cireuse de bottes nom {f} | shoeshiner(person who shines shoes) |
couille dans le potage (testicle in the soup) [both vulgar] nom {f} | fly in the ointment(something which ruins or spoils everything else, or makes it less pleasant) |
elbot [Belgium] nom {m} | halibut [halibuts]◼◼◼(fish of genus Hippoglossus) |
escarbot nom {m} | dung beetle [dung beetles](insect of the family Scarabaeidae) |
étambot nom | sternpost◼◼◼(timber or bar at the stern of a vessel) |
faut que les bottines suivent les babines verbe | walk the talk(to act in accordance with one's words) walk the walk(follow up on what one has promised) |
golfe de Botnie nom propre {m} | Gulf of Bothnia◼◼◼(arm of the Baltic) |
goulot [of a bottle] nom {m} | throat [throats]◼◼◼(narrow opening in a vessel) |
hypolaïs bottée nom {f} | booted warbler(Iduna caligata) |
jabot nom {m} | crop [crops]◼◼◼(part of bird's or animal’s alimentary tract) jabot [jabots]◼◼◼(a cascading or ornamental frill down the front of a blouse) |
jaboter verbe | babble [babbled, babbling, babbles](to talk much) |
jardin botanique nom {m} | botanical garden◼◼◼(a place where a variety of plants are grown for scientific reasons) |
lait de jabot nom {m} | crop milk◼◼◼("milk" from a bird’s crop) |
lèche-botte verbe | lickspittle◼◼◼(act as a fawning toady) |
lèche-bottes nom {m} nom {f} | sycophant [sycophants]◼◼◼(one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person.) bootlicker◼◼◼(person who behaves in a servile or obsequious manner) |
lèche-bottes nom | brownnose◼◻◻(one who brownnoses) |