couillon
French
noun
Definitions
- (vulgar) dickhead, bastard
- (vulgar) coward
- (card games) A Belgian card game that is also played in Limburg and on the border of Luxemburg and Germany.
- (Louisiana French) joker, funny person; nut, nutter
- (Louisiana French) fool, simpleton, nitwit
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French couillon inherited from Old French coillon (testicle, a vile fellow, dupe, coward, also) inherited from Latin *cōleōnem, cōleus (scrotum, sack, testicle, testicles, a leather bag) suffix from French couille (ball).
Origin
French
couille
Gloss
ball
Concept
Semantic Field
Spatial relations
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
玉
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- *coleūtus Latin
- *cōlea Latin
- *cōleō, *coleo, cōleōnem Latin
- *cōleō, *cōleōnem Latin
- *cōleōnem Latin
- culleus Latin
- cōleus Latin
- Kujon German
- kujon Hungarian
- coglionare Italian
- coglione Italian
- coglioneria Italian
- rompicoglioni Italian
- scoglionare Italian
- koejon Dutch, Flemish
- casse-couilles French
- couille French
- couillu French
- pète-couilles French
- acojonarse Spanish, Castilian
- cojonudo Spanish, Castilian
- cojón Spanish, Castilian
- κολεός Ancient Greek
- colhão Portuguese
- coilon Middle English
- coille Old French
- coillon Old French
- kojono Esperanto
- collonut Catalan, Valencian
- colló Catalan, Valencian
- collón Galician
- coi Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- caill Welsh
- couille Middle French
- couillon Middle French
- colhon Old Portuguese
- collon Old Portuguese
- colj Aromanian
- coljiu Aromanian
- Gajung Alemannic German
- coion Friulian
- cojon Venetian
- kell Breton
- kell Cornish
- kouyon Mauritian Creole
- coleone Interlingua