fout
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== Dutch ==
=== Etymology ===
From Middle Dutch faute, from Old French faute. The adjectival sense developed later, replacing older foutief.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /fɑu̯t/
Hyphenation: fout
Rhymes: -ɑu̯t
=== Noun ===
fout f (plural fouten, diminutive foutje n)
error, mistake
fault, defect
==== Derived terms ====
==== Descendants ====
Afrikaans: fout
Negerhollands: faut, fout, vaut, vout
→ Papiamentu: fout
→ Sranan Tongo: fowtu
→ Saramaccan: fóútu
=== Adjective ===
fout (comparative fouter, superlative foutst)
wrong
(colloquial) unfashionable, cheesy, inappropriate
(chiefly historical) active in or collaborating with far-right movements, especially Nazism
==== Declension ====
==== Descendants ====
→ Sranan Tongo: fowtu
== French ==
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /fu/
Homophones: fou, fous, foux
=== Verb ===
fout
third-person singular present indicative of foutre
== Louisiana Creole ==
=== Etymology ===
From French foutre (“to mock”), compare Haitian Creole fout.
=== Verb ===
fout
to mock
to give (a push)
=== References ===
Alcée Fortier, Louisiana Folktales
== Luxembourgish ==
=== Verb ===
fout
inflection of fouen:
third-person singular present indicative
second-person plural present indicative
second-person plural imperative
== Middle English ==
=== Noun ===
fout
alternative form of fot
== Yola ==
=== Etymology ===
From Middle English faute, from Anglo-Norman faute, from Vulgar Latin *fallita.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /fəʊt/
=== Noun ===
fout
fault
=== References ===
Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 40