parleyvoon.adj.

Brit.

/ˌpɑːlɪˈvuː/, U.S.

/ˌpɑrliˈvu/

Forms: 1700s parle vou, 1700s parle-vous, 1700s parlevous, 1700s parlour voo, 1700s parly-vous, 1700s–1800s parlez vous, 1800s parleyvoos, 1800s parley-voos, 1800s parley-vous, 1800s parlezvous, 1800s parlyvoo, 1800s parlyvous, 1800s parly-woo, 1800s– parleyvoo, 1800s– parlez-vous, 1800s– parly-voo, 1900s– parlevoo, 1900s– parley-voo. Also (esp. in sense A. 2) with capital initial.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French parlez-vous.

Etymology: < French parlez-vous (in parlez-vous français? ‘do you speak French?’ < parlez , 2nd person plural of parler parle v. + vous you (plural) + français : see French adj.). Compare parleyvoo v., parley v.

colloquial and humorous (frequently derogatory).

A. n.

1. The French language; (esp.) French as studied, spoken, or understood by an English person. Formerly also in plural: French utterances or talk.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > postulated Italo-Celtic > Romance > French

FrenchOE

Romanic1711

parleyvoo1754

frog1936

the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > postulated Italo-Celtic > Romance > French > school study of French

French1612

parleyvoo1813

1754 S. Foote Knights ii. 27 In comes a French Fellow..with his Muff and Parle-vous.

1813 R. Southey March to Moscow viii, in Poet. Wks. (1838) VI. 221 But he look'd white and he look'd blue, Morbleu! Parbleu! When parlez-vous no more would do.

1822 J. Galt Steam-boat xii. 290 But the bodies hae a civil way with them for a' that, and it's no possible to be angry at their parleyvoos.

1853 Putnam's Monthly Mag. Apr. 439/2 I tell you again, neither of us. We can't speak parleyvoo, and don't want to. We're a couple of Yankees from the States.

1889 J. R. Lowell in Atlantic Monthly Aug. 148 No words to spell, no sums to do, No Nepos and no parlyvoo!

a1897 T. E. Brown Coll. Poems (1900) 119 And so he went on with his parley-voos.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 503 Lynch Let him alone. He's back from Paris... Zoe O go on! Give us some parleyvoo.

1994 Times Lit. Suppl. 11 Mar. 16/2 It helps, of course, that he is such a dab hand at the parleyvoo.

2002 Express (Nexis) 30 May (Motoring section) 11 I tried to answer a question in the old parly-voo along the lines of ‘Is this your car, sir?’ and made the mistake of saying ‘Non’.

2. Usually in plural. A French person. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > French nation > [noun] > native or inhabitant of France

FrenchmanOE

monsieur?a1513

Gaul1630

frog1657

Gallic1755

mounseer1755

parleyvoo1755

frog-eater1766

Galloman1787

mossoo1809

Frencher1826

Frenchy1829

parley1831

crapaud?c1834

wi-wi1841

froggy1853

1755 D. Mallet Britannia Prol. What! shall these Parly-vous make such a racket, And I not lend a hand, to lace their jacket?

1798 C. Mordaunt Let. 29 Aug. in E. Hamilton Mordaunts (1965) x. 247 I hope if these Parlez vous stay for us, the little English will have some share, there never was so fine a Battalion as we make.

1815 Sporting Mag. 45 164 Jockies, Jews, and Parlezvous, Courtezans and Quakers.

1884 D. Pae Eustace 91 You'll have the honour of going to fight the frog-eating parleyvoos.

1916 Our Navy (U.S.) Apr. 57 Dakar is a French possession and the language spoken is that of the Parlevoos.

1942 A. E. W. Mason Musk & Amber i. 15 He sees himself an Admiral..commanding a fleet against the parlez-vous.

B. adj. (attributive).

French; foreign. Now rare.

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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > French nation > [adjective]

FrenchOE

Frenchly1530

Frank1552

Gaulish1656

Gallic1672

parleyvoo1778

Gallo-American1797

Gaulic1840

Gallo-German1861

froggy1937

1778 S. Foote Capuchin iii, in Trip to Calais 136 This is some parle vou rascal! they don't mind a rape or a robbery here.

1822 J. Galt Provost xi. 87 My lord, out of a parly-voo politess, was egging them on.

1828 D. M. Moir Life Mansie Wauch xi. 95 His waistcoat was cut in the Parly-voo fashion.

1891 J. Oxley Chore-boy of Camp Kippewa 74 I wouldn't give him for half a dozen of those parlez vous Frenchies.

1993 Atlanta Jrnl. & Constit. (Nexis) 9 Jan. l17 Despite a handful of parley-voo embellishments (courses are categorized as ‘les salades’, ‘les entrees’..), the cuisine is..chop-house safe in conception.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

parleyvoov.

Brit.

/ˌpɑːlɪˈvuː/, U.S.

/ˌpɑrliˈvu/

Forms: 1700s parler vous, 1800s– parleyvoo, 1800s– parleyvous, 1800s– parley-vous, 1800s– parlez-vous, 1800s– parlez vous, 1900s– parley-voo, 1900s– parley voo, 1900s– parlezvous.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French parlez-vous.

colloquial and humorous (often derogatory).

intransitive. To speak French; to speak a foreign language; (more generally) to palaver, chat. Also transitive: to talk to or address in French; to say in French.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [verb (intransitive)] > speak French

parlier1667

parleyvoo1765

the mind > language > speech > conversation > converse [verb (intransitive)] > chat

dallyc1300

confablec1450

crack1529

tattle1547

chat1551

confabulate1604

confab1741

prosea1764

parleyvoo1765

coze1818

yarn1819

cosher1833

to pass a good morning1835

small-talk1848

mardle1853

cooze1870

chinwag1879

rap1909

kibitz1923

to shoot the breeze1941

old-talk1956

ole-talk1971

gyaff1976

gist1992

1765 S. Foote Commissary ii. 34 You know I can't parler vous.

1813 R. Southey March to Moscow viii, in Poet. Wks. (1838) VI. 220 He would rather parlez-vous than fight.

1824 T. B. Macaulay Great Lawsuit in Misc. Writings (1860) I. 94 He kept six French masters to teach him to parleyvoo.

1838 J. H. Reynolds Confounded foreigners iv. 14 This, Martha, is a French gentleman from Bordeaux.., come to parlez vous you a little.

1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch III. lx. 335 I've been abroad myself, Mr Ladislaw—I've seen the world—used to parley-vous a little.

1922 S. Lewis Babbitt iii. 27 Well, it's been nice to stop and parleyvoo a second.

1993 Daily Variety (Nexis) 22 Feb. Jodie Foster heads to Paris to parlez-vous her own French looping for ‘Sommersby’.

2002 Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tennessee) (Nexis) 28 Apr. g3 You don't parley-voo? You've never even lived in France?

Derivatives

ˈparleyˌvooing n.

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1823 J. Galt Entail II. xxviii. 265 Me and your honest grandfather..had no foistring and parleyvooing, like your novelle turtle-doves.

1963 E. Waugh Let. 2 Feb. (1980) 598 I was never much of a one for parlez-vousing..but..I could often catch on to what the frogs said.

1994 Baltimore Sun (Nexis) 22 Dec. (Features section) 1 d ‘Pret-a-Porter’ as it was originally hyped and titled, has been translated to ‘Ready-to-Wear’ for American audiences who are not comfortable with their parley vooing.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	parleyvoo
释义	parleyvoon.adj. Brit. /ˌpɑːlɪˈvuː/, U.S. /ˌpɑrliˈvu/ Forms: 1700s parle vou, 1700s parle-vous, 1700s parlevous, 1700s parlour voo, 1700s parly-vous, 1700s–1800s parlez vous, 1800s parleyvoos, 1800s parley-voos, 1800s parley-vous, 1800s parlezvous, 1800s parlyvoo, 1800s parlyvous, 1800s parly-woo, 1800s– parleyvoo, 1800s– parlez-vous, 1800s– parly-voo, 1900s– parlevoo, 1900s– parley-voo. Also (esp. in sense A. 2) with capital initial. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French parlez-vous. Etymology: < French parlez-vous (in parlez-vous français? ‘do you speak French?’ < parlez , 2nd person plural of parler parle v. + vous you (plural) + français : see French adj.). Compare parleyvoo v., parley v. colloquial and humorous (frequently derogatory). A. n. 1. The French language; (esp.) French as studied, spoken, or understood by an English person. Formerly also in plural: French utterances or talk. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > postulated Italo-Celtic > Romance > French FrenchOE Romanic1711 parleyvoo1754 frog1936 the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > postulated Italo-Celtic > Romance > French > school study of French French1612 parleyvoo1813 1754 S. Foote Knights ii. 27 In comes a French Fellow..with his Muff and Parle-vous. 1813 R. Southey March to Moscow viii, in Poet. Wks. (1838) VI. 221 But he look'd white and he look'd blue, Morbleu! Parbleu! When parlez-vous no more would do. 1822 J. Galt Steam-boat xii. 290 But the bodies hae a civil way with them for a' that, and it's no possible to be angry at their parleyvoos. 1853 Putnam's Monthly Mag. Apr. 439/2 I tell you again, neither of us. We can't speak parleyvoo, and don't want to. We're a couple of Yankees from the States. 1889 J. R. Lowell in Atlantic Monthly Aug. 148 No words to spell, no sums to do, No Nepos and no parlyvoo! a1897 T. E. Brown Coll. Poems (1900) 119 And so he went on with his parley-voos. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 503 Lynch Let him alone. He's back from Paris... Zoe O go on! Give us some parleyvoo. 1994 Times Lit. Suppl. 11 Mar. 16/2 It helps, of course, that he is such a dab hand at the parleyvoo. 2002 Express (Nexis) 30 May (Motoring section) 11 I tried to answer a question in the old parly-voo along the lines of ‘Is this your car, sir?’ and made the mistake of saying ‘Non’. 2. Usually in plural. A French person. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > French nation > [noun] > native or inhabitant of France FrenchmanOE monsieur?a1513 Gaul1630 frog1657 Gallic1755 mounseer1755 parleyvoo1755 frog-eater1766 Galloman1787 mossoo1809 Frencher1826 Frenchy1829 parley1831 crapaud?c1834 wi-wi1841 froggy1853 1755 D. Mallet Britannia Prol. What! shall these Parly-vous make such a racket, And I not lend a hand, to lace their jacket? 1798 C. Mordaunt Let. 29 Aug. in E. Hamilton Mordaunts (1965) x. 247 I hope if these Parlez vous stay for us, the little English will have some share, there never was so fine a Battalion as we make. 1815 Sporting Mag. 45 164 Jockies, Jews, and Parlezvous, Courtezans and Quakers. 1884 D. Pae Eustace 91 You'll have the honour of going to fight the frog-eating parleyvoos. 1916 Our Navy (U.S.) Apr. 57 Dakar is a French possession and the language spoken is that of the Parlevoos. 1942 A. E. W. Mason Musk & Amber i. 15 He sees himself an Admiral..commanding a fleet against the parlez-vous. B. adj. (attributive). French; foreign. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > French nation > [adjective] FrenchOE Frenchly1530 Frank1552 Gaulish1656 Gallic1672 parleyvoo1778 Gallo-American1797 Gaulic1840 Gallo-German1861 froggy1937 1778 S. Foote Capuchin iii, in Trip to Calais 136 This is some parle vou rascal! they don't mind a rape or a robbery here. 1822 J. Galt Provost xi. 87 My lord, out of a parly-voo politess, was egging them on. 1828 D. M. Moir Life Mansie Wauch xi. 95 His waistcoat was cut in the Parly-voo fashion. 1891 J. Oxley Chore-boy of Camp Kippewa 74 I wouldn't give him for half a dozen of those parlez vous Frenchies. 1993 Atlanta Jrnl. & Constit. (Nexis) 9 Jan. l17 Despite a handful of parley-voo embellishments (courses are categorized as ‘les salades’, ‘les entrees’..), the cuisine is..chop-house safe in conception. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). parleyvoov. Brit. /ˌpɑːlɪˈvuː/, U.S. /ˌpɑrliˈvu/ Forms: 1700s parler vous, 1800s– parleyvoo, 1800s– parleyvous, 1800s– parley-vous, 1800s– parlez-vous, 1800s– parlez vous, 1900s– parley-voo, 1900s– parley voo, 1900s– parlezvous. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French parlez-vous. Etymology: < French parlez-vous (in parlez-vous français? ‘do you speak French?’ < parlez , 2nd person plural of parler parle v. + vous you (plural) + français : see French adj.). Compare parleyvoo n., parley v. colloquial and humorous (often derogatory). intransitive. To speak French; to speak a foreign language; (more generally) to palaver, chat. Also transitive: to talk to or address in French; to say in French. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [verb (intransitive)] > speak French parlier1667 parleyvoo1765 the mind > language > speech > conversation > converse [verb (intransitive)] > chat dallyc1300 confablec1450 crack1529 tattle1547 chat1551 confabulate1604 confab1741 prosea1764 parleyvoo1765 coze1818 yarn1819 cosher1833 to pass a good morning1835 small-talk1848 mardle1853 cooze1870 chinwag1879 rap1909 kibitz1923 to shoot the breeze1941 old-talk1956 ole-talk1971 gyaff1976 gist1992 1765 S. Foote Commissary ii. 34 You know I can't parler vous. 1813 R. Southey March to Moscow viii, in Poet. Wks. (1838) VI. 220 He would rather parlez-vous than fight. 1824 T. B. Macaulay Great Lawsuit in Misc. Writings (1860) I. 94 He kept six French masters to teach him to parleyvoo. 1838 J. H. Reynolds Confounded foreigners iv. 14 This, Martha, is a French gentleman from Bordeaux.., come to parlez vous you a little. 1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch III. lx. 335 I've been abroad myself, Mr Ladislaw—I've seen the world—used to parley-vous a little. 1922 S. Lewis Babbitt iii. 27 Well, it's been nice to stop and parleyvoo a second. 1993 Daily Variety (Nexis) 22 Feb. Jodie Foster heads to Paris to parlez-vous her own French looping for ‘Sommersby’. 2002 Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tennessee) (Nexis) 28 Apr. g3 You don't parley-voo? You've never even lived in France? Derivatives ˈparleyˌvooing n. ΚΠ 1823 J. Galt Entail II. xxviii. 265 Me and your honest grandfather..had no foistring and parleyvooing, like your novelle turtle-doves. 1963 E. Waugh Let. 2 Feb. (1980) 598 I was never much of a one for parlez-vousing..but..I could often catch on to what the frogs said. 1994 Baltimore Sun (Nexis) 22 Dec. (Features section) 1 d ‘Pret-a-Porter’ as it was originally hyped and titled, has been translated to ‘Ready-to-Wear’ for American audiences who are not comfortable with their parley vooing. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1754v.1765
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