French Slang Wish 101 Trivia Quiz

Answer: awnings (aka shutters)

If you see this on a shop, they sell canvas things even jeans but primarily awnings. As the typical one was made out of canvas but some other materials are called "stores" for awnings, even metal.

Answer: Le flic

Slang abounds in words for money in most languages, French is no exception. "Un flic" is a cop.

Answer: Les nanas

"Les nanas" refers to young women. Many women use this term to designate themselves...but it's getting rather close to "chick" so should be used after hearing it used. "Le ble" is wheat so is close to "dough" or bread in terms of "earning daily bread". (sorry the accents no longer work, put an acute accent on that one in your mind please.)

Answer: etre plein aux as

The original answer had an accent but I'll include it. The verb "faucher" means to thresh grain, so if your grain has already been threshed, then you're broke! A rond is a coin. On the straw or "sur la paille" is fairly clear. Sec means dry so the meaning is fairly obvious.
Plein aux as, is "full to the aces" or rolling in dough.

Answer: avoir le coeur sur la main

If you grip onto your coins, you are cheap! Pingre is stingy. Radin is as well. Your heart on your hand means you are very generous indeed. The feminine of radin is radine.

Answer: etre un canon

Un canon is a term used for a top model type, may be used for a man, but is actually used for a woman more often than not. "Claudia Schiffer est un canon". The others are "laid comme un poux" as ugly as a louse!, un boudin = a sausage or like black pudding in British English, "moche" is an all purpose word for "homely" or not attractive in the least. I don't approve of these terms of course, just want you to know them! Don't punch anyone out on my account please.

Answer: C'est un rat de bibliotheque

C'est un rat de bibliotheque means he is a bookworm. The others are "stupid as his feet" "didn't invent gunpowder" and "he's missing a bolt." Not extremely complementary but heard quite often. About the equivalent of not having the sharpest tools in the shed.

Answer: a speed bump

I love this word, yet few people slow down for them. "muffler" is "un pot d'echappement" or "silencieux". "Un slow" is a slow dance.
"l'accelerateur" is the accelerator.

Answer: a blinking light, turn signal

If someone turns in front of you without using it, "Et le clignotant, vous ne connaissez pas?" Could also be on a machine, computer etc.

Answer: es-tu completement sur?

The original meaning had an accent so "Crever" means with the air let out, such as in a punctured tire, but in this sense tired, exhausted, the others all mean crazy.

Answer: envoyer en colonie de vacances

Colonie de vacances just means summer camp, nothing more. Roses are beautiful but full of thorns, paitre is the verb for putting your animals to pasture. 'Je l'ai envoye paitre' means "I told him where to get off." It's pretty elegant, but you see it occasionally. I won't put the others here, you'll have to learn them yourself.

Answer: un pif

Un pif is slang for the nose. Il a le pif rouge, means he drinks too much and has a red nose. Machin-chouette is when you can't think of what it's called. By the way, if you're doing something without the manual and measuring instruments, you're doing it "par pifometre".
Estimating it!

Answer: dument

Dument means duly. I have been duly informed. I've never been able to figure out the word vache for very..but it's used all over France. If you think about it, "I'm cowly tired" sounds odd.

Answer: A blank sheet of paper

Vierge means virgin as well as designating the astrological sign, then it also means new or unused, or blank. Feuille is leaf for the tree and the sheet of paper. Portefeuille is billfold or wallet.

Answer: sleep in

"Faire la grasse matinee" (accents deleted sorry), simply means to sleep in more than usual. I'm not quite sure where the fat part comes in!
"Matinee" simply means morning, so you see where the early show comes in. "Matiere grasse" is the fat content in foods etc.