cuite

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See also: cuité

French

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From cuire.

Participle

cuite f sg

  1. feminine singular of cuit

Noun

cuite f (plural cuites)

  1. batch of ore, porcelain or the like for smelting; viewed economically, the time an occurrence of smelting takes
    Synonym: fournée
    • 1753, Christophe-André Schlutter, “CXXXIII. De le fabrication des vitriols.”, in M. Hellot, transl., De la fonte des mines, des fonderies, des grillages, des fourneaux de fonte, d’affinage, de raffinage, des fabriques de vitriol, de potasse, &c., volume 2, Paris: Jean-Thomas Hérissant; Jacques-Noël Pissot, page 641:
      Lorsque les grandes cuves sont pleines de lessive, on en commence les cuites. La premiere n’étant que de lessive sauvage, dure vingt-six à trente heures; mais lorsqu’on on peut remplir avec de la lessive qui a déja fourni du vitriol, alors la cuite ne dure que dix-huit à vingt heures.
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  2. (slang) piss-up (UK), bender (US)
    Synonym: biture
    J’ai pris une cuite hier soir. ― I got plastered last night.
    • 2019, Alain Damasio, chapter 3, in Les furtifs [The Stealthies], La Volte, →ISBN:
      Un café qui, comme la plupart, depuis que la ville avait été privatisée, n’était plus du tout un lieu de braillades, de petits vieux, d’échanges ou de cuites complices mais un ersatz de bureau pour travailleurs auto-entrepris.
      A café which, like most of them since the city had been privatized, was no longer a place for shouting matches, little old men, conversations or people getting plastered together, but an ersatz office for self-employed workers.

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Regular conjugated form of cuiter

Verb

cuite

  1. inflection of cuiter:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

Spanish

Verb

cuite

  1. inflection of cuitar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
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