flingue
See also: flingué
French
editEtymology
editProbably borrowed from flinke, flingge, Bavarian variant of German Flinte.[1]
Noun
editflingue m (plural flingues)
- (colloquial) shooter, pistol, gat (gun)
Derived terms
editVerb
editflingue
- inflection of flinguer:
References
edit- ^ “flinke” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
Further reading
edit- “flingue”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.