loucherbemn.
/luːʃəˈbɛm/ The name given to a type of French slang formed by the transposing of certain letters and addition of others.
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1937 J. Orr tr. I. Iordan Introd. Romance Linguistics iv. 360 The butchers of La Villette speak, or spoke, a slang called loucherbem, or largongi... The process..is a deliberate modification of an existing word.
1938 I. Goldberg Wonder of Words viii. 155 In French there is the loucherbème language, so called because its model of transformed words is boucher.
1939 L. H. Gray Found. Lang. 31 Only in a few instances do they actually change the form of words, as in the relatively recent French loucherbème.
1942 E. Partridge Usage & Abusage 169/2 Gibberish is applied..to the Loucherbem of the Paris butchers (loucherbem for boucher is itself Loucherbem).
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