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French
Etymology
Probably dialectal: Lorrain goujart, or Occitan gojat, both two at sense of “young man” (f. gouge), but the first meaning could still be “young female”; possibly from Latin gaudium.
Pronunciation
Noun
goujat m (plural goujats, feminine goujate)
- boor, churl
1886, Léon Bloy, chapter XXI, in Le Désespéré:Véronique Cheminot, […] était une splendide goujate que dix années, au moins, de prostitution sur vingt-cinq n’avaient pu flétrir.- Véronique Cheminot, was boorish yet stunningly beautiful; ten years, at least, of prostitution in her twenty-five years of life had not been able to lessen her charm.
1899, Eugène Le Roy, chapter VI, in Jacquou le Croquant:Mais, pour dire le vrai, ça n’en prenait pas le chemin : plus ça allait, plus ce goujat prenait de la maîtrise dans la maison, par la folie de la Mathive.- But, to tell the truth, it did not turn out that way: as time went on, that boor held more and more sway over the household, because of La Mathive's foolishness.
1924, Emmanuel Bove, Mes Amis:Henri Billard était un goujat. Jamais il ne me rendrait les cinquante francs. C’est toujours ainsi que le monde vous récompense.- Henri Billard was a boor. He would never give me back the fifty francs. This is the kind of thanks you get.
- (archaic, military) dogsbody, lackey
- Synonyms: butor, malotru
1853, “Préface”, in Alfred Morel-Fatio, transl., Vie de Lazarille de Tormès:Aux chevaliers copiés sur les nôtres, toujours nobles et généreux, voués à un idéal inaccessible, aux forêts fraîches et profondes, à ce monde imaginaire et fantastique succèdent et s’associent […] le goujat d’armée, […]- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Derived terms
Adjective
goujat (plural goujats)
- crude and offensive
Further reading
Occitan
Noun
goujat m (plural goujats)
- Alternative form of gojat