bidon

From French bidon.

bidon (plural bidons)

1. (cycling) A water bottle.

• sports bottle

• Bodin, Bondi, dob in

From French bidon.

bidon m inan

1. a bidon, occasionally also: a sports bottle
2. (dated, rare) a jerrycan
3. (dated, rare) a canteen (a water bottle used by a soldier)

Borrowed from French bidon.

• IPA^(key): /biˈdɔn/

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• Hyphenation: bi‧don
• Rhymes: -ɔn

bidon m (plural bidons, diminutive bidonnetje n)

1. A bidon; a sports drinking bottle, especially one used on a bicycle.

• bidonhouder

From Middle French bidon (“small portable container, sealed and made of wood or metal”), from Old Norse bida, *biða (“container, vessel”), from Proto-Germanic *bidōn, *bidjan (“tub, vessel, vat”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰidʰ- (“pot, bucket, barrel”), from *bʰeydʰ- (“to weave, bind”). Cognate with Icelandic biða (“milkbucket”), Norwegian bide (“churn”), Norwegian bidne (“vessel”), Latin fidēlia (“clay or glass vessel”), Ancient Greek πίθος (píthos, “wine barrel”).

• IPA^(key): /bi.dɔ̃/

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• Rhymes: -dɔ̃

bidon m (plural bidons)

1. can, tin, canister
   1. milk carton
   2. water bottle
2. (childish) tummy

• → English: bidon
• → Italian: bidone
• → Khmer: ប៊ីដុង (biidong)
• → Russian: бидо́н (bidón)

bidon (invariable)

1. (slang) rigged

   La course de chevaux est bidon.

   The horse race is rigged.

2. (slang) phoney, sham

   Ces cris et ces pleurs sont bidon puisqu'elle ne l'aimait pas.

   These cries and tears are phoney because she didn't love him.

3. (slang) crap

   Ce film est complètement bidon.

   This film is complete crap.

• bidonville

• “bidon” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• bondi

• IPA^(key): /ˈbidon/

bidon

1. preterite plural of bīdan