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French
- schleu, schleuh (Germanized variant forms, used when the word means "German")
Etymology
Borrowed from Moroccan Arabic شلوح (šlūḥ). Among the French military in northern Africa (Bataillon d'Afrique), it came to mean "one who could not speak French or even Arabic" and was later applied to the Germans, mainly during the Second World War.
Pronunciation
Noun
chleuh m (plural chleuhs, feminine chleuhe)
- (uncountable) Tashelhit; one of the Berber languages
- (countable, derogatory, ethnic slur) a German; a kraut
- Synonyms: boche, fritz
Adjective
chleuh (feminine chleuhe, masculine plural chleuhs, feminine plural chleuhes)
- Shilha, Tashelhit
- (derogatory) German
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