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Conges terminology question
185 months ago
Barbara R. Cochran (a guest user) asked this question:
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Language pair: |
French > English |
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Subject: |
Other |
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Level of diffculty: |
Easy / medium |
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Word or term in question: |
un bout de fauve mouillé |
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Context: |
Sur le troittoir d'en face, deux enfants et un chien couraient, l'un riant d'entendre... |
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Keywords: |
...aboyer l'autre et l'autre aboyant de ne pouvoir leur imposer un rythme de promenade plus raisonnable et plus tranquille. Lorsque l'un des enfants se tourna vers la bête, son rire se fit narquois. elle se mit à hurler. Un bout de fauve mouillé se déchainait en ville. |
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Complete list of answers and comments
185 months ago
Arvid Eldring 
wrote:
a piece of wet, furious animal
185 months ago
Arvid Eldring
wrote:
a scrap of a wet wild animal was raging furiously
The asker rated this answer best
185 months ago
Gina W
wrote:
a bit of wet pavestone
My comment:
I don't think that fauve is what they meant here
185 months ago
Gina W
wrote:
a piece of wet wild cat
My comment:
this is what it means, you may find a more literary formulation.
Comments by other colleagues on this answer:
185 months ago
Jennifer White
wrote:
Isn't it referring to the dog, though? A bundle of wet fur, maybe?
185 months ago
Lee Hamu
wrote:
I'd go with Jennifer's answer, the "bundle of wet fur". I might even make it a "scrappy bundle of wet fur".
185 months ago
Claude Le Frapper
wrote:
a piece of wet wild cat
My comment:
this is what it means, you may find a more literary formulation.
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