ginguet
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French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle French guinget (“a bitter type of wine served in taverns”), from guinger, a variant of giguer.
Adjective
[edit]ginguet (feminine ginguette, masculine plural ginguets, feminine plural ginguettes)
- (dated, colloquial) weak, bitter, poor (especially of wine)
- worthless, sorry
- scanty, short (of a garment)
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “ginguet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.