cabrer
French
Etymology
Perhaps from cabre. Compare Spanish cabrear. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.bʁe/
- Rhymes: -e
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Verb
cabrer
- (transitive, of a horse) to rear up
- (takes a reflexive pronoun, figurative) to complain
- 1992, Amélie Nothomb, Hygiène de l'assassin; republished as Alison Anderson, transl., Hygiene and the Assassin, 2010:
- Le journaliste nota sur le carnet : « T. accueille les compliments sans se cabrer. »
- The journalist wrote in his notebook: “T. does not respond to compliments.”
Conjugation
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Further reading
- “cabrer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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