chleuh

See also: Chleuh

French

Alternative forms
  • schleu, schleuh (Germanized variant forms, used when the word means "German")

Etymology

From Arabic تَشَلْحِيت‎ (tašalḥīt). Among the French military in Africa it came to mean "one who couldn't speak French" and was then applied to the Germans during the Second World War.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ʃlø/
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Noun

chleuh m (plural chleuhs, feminine chleuhe)

  1. (uncountable) Tashelhit; one of the Berber languages
  2. (countable, derogatory, ethnic slur) a German; a kraut [1940s]

Synonyms
  • (German, pejorative): boche

Adjective

chleuh (feminine singular chleuhe, masculine plural chleuhs, feminine plural chleuhes)

  1. Tashelhit
  2. (derogatory) German

Further reading
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