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‖ mauvaise langue|mɔvɛz lɑ̃g|
[Fr., lit. ‘bad tongue’.]
An evil or venomous tongue; a vituperative gossip; a scandal-monger.
1888C. M. Yonge Beechcroft at Rockstone II. xiii. 14 The foreboding that the mauvaises langues would get hold of it. 1924A. D. Sedgwick Little French Girl iv. i. 304 Marigold is a wretched gossip, and worse. She's a mauvaise langue; I would not trust her story. 1936‘R. West’ Thinking Reed i. 18 In another moment that couple of mauvaises langues would have something to wag about. 1939C. Beaton My Royal Past ix. 101 A lady..with a very mauvaise langue. 1974New Society 11 Apr. 58/2 We are told that all Europe is at a standstill, until it knows who has been elected president (and those who are mauvaise langue will add that if it is Chaban-Delmas, there will be a further delay whilst he acquaints himself with foreign affairs). |