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French
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Adjective
potache (plural potaches)
- schoolboy, schoolboyish
2019, Alain Damasio, chapter 1, in Les furtifs [The Stealthies], La Volte, →ISBN:À ce moment-ci de l’examen final, après soixante-dix-neuf semaines de formation où il m’a tout appris, il ne s’attendait pas, de ma part, à un aussi potache provocation.- At this point, the moment of the final exam, after seventy-nine weeks of training in which he taught me everything, he was not expecting such a juvenile provocation from me.
Noun
potache m (plural potaches)
- (colloquial) student, school kid
- blague de potache ― schoolboy prank
Further reading
Middle English
Noun
potache
- Alternative form of potage