tapette
French
Noun
tapette f (plural tapettes)
- swatter, flyswatter
- Il y a trop d'insectes. Passe-moi la tapette. — There's too many bugs. Pass me the flyswatter.
- mousetrap
- (slang, derogatory) poof, faggot
- 1999, Chrystine Brouillet, Les Fiancées de l'Enfer, →ISBN, page 91:
- "Un gigolo. Sans intérêt. Il ne le violerait jamais. Il n'était pas une tapette." — A gigolo. Nothing interesting. He'd never rape him. He wasn't a faggot.
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Further reading
- “tapette” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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