parleyvoo
Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word parleyvoo. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word parleyvoo, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say parleyvoo in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word parleyvoo you have here. The definition of the word parleyvoo will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofparleyvoo, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
parleyvoo (countable and uncountable, plural parleyvoos)
- The French language, especially as understood by an English person.
- 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, , →OCLC:
- Lynch. Let him alone. He's back from Paris […] Zoe. O go on! Give us some parleyvoo.
- (countable, now rare) A French person.
- 1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt, published 2008, page 276:
- [O]ne of these d—d Parlivoos will go farther with some women in a day, than an Englishman in a month—all owing to their impudence; for a common man has as much impudence in France as a man-midwife has in England.
- 1887, Gilbert and Sullivan, “Ruddigore”, in Delphi Complete Works of Gilbert and Sullivan (Illustrated), published 2017, →ISBN:
- We were hardy British tars who had pity on a poor Parley-voo
Verb
parleyvoo (third-person singular simple present parleyvoos, present participle parleyvooing, simple past and past participle parleyvooed)