bouder

Inherited from Middle French bouder, from Old French bouder (“to sulk”, literally “to swell or protrude the lip”), from a root *bod- (“to swell”) (compare Walloon boder (“to swell”)), probably from Proto-Germanic *būd-, *beud-, *buzda-, *bus- (“to swell”), from Proto-Indo-European *beu-, *bu-, *bʰew- (“to blow, swell”).

Cognate with Middle Low German buddich (“swollen”), Old Norse budda (“purse, bag”), Old Saxon būdil (“bag, purse”), Old High German būtil (“purse”) (German Beutel), English bud. More at bud, bug.

• IPA^(key): /bu.de/

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bouder

1. to sulk, pout
2. (transitive) to frown upon, to be discontented with
   • 2021, Marjolaine Solaro, Ma grossesse en 300 questions / réponses:

     La tétine est, en effet, à risque pour l’allaitement. Certains bébés en sont tellement satisfaits qu’ils en boudent un peu le sein.

     Dummies are indeed risky during breastfeeding. Some babies are so satisfied with them that they go off the breast a little.

• râler
• faire la tête

• bouderie
• boudeur
• boudoir

• → English: boody
• → Romanian: buda

• “bouder”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

• bourde

Ultimately of imitative origin, compare Latin buttis.

bouder

1. to sulk

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-d, *-ds, *-dt are modified to t, z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (bouder, supplement)