Noun: bidet
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | bidet |
| Plural m | bidets |
Sample Sentences
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Il mit sa main devant ses yeux; et il aperçut à l'horizon un enclos de murs où des arbres, çà et là, faisaient des bouquets noirs entre des pierres blanches, puis il continua sa route, au petit trot, car son bidet boitait. [1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:]
Nouns inflected like bidet
trichogramme,
wintergreen,
urinoir,
contrespionnage,
aréomètre,
palefroi,
whiskey,
whippin,
tee-shirt,
hypocycloïde,
surrisque,
lanternon,
dissentiment,
phonogramme,
phonographe,
trioxygène,
fétichisme,
synode,
synthé,
modérantisme, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle French bider (“to trot”), of unknown ultimate origin, + -et. Possibly related to Medieval Italian bidetto (“small horse”), itself probably related to Proto-West Germanic *biti (“bite; horse's bit”); or, possibly from a lost Middle French rabider (“go quickly, violently”), a descendant of Latin rabidus (“furious, fierce”), with loss of the initial prefix.
2. Modern sense derives from analogy with the straddling of a bidet and the straddling of a small horse. See: Italian Nouns '
bidetto', Latin Nouns '
rabidus'.
Verbs referencing "bidet"
Slovak Nouns
bidet, Hungarian Nouns
bidé, German Nouns
Bidet, Finnish Nouns
bidee, Greek Nouns
μπιντές, Romanian Nouns
bideu.
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