sauvageon

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French

Etymology

From sauvage +‎ -on.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /so.va.ʒɔ̃/
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Noun

sauvageon m (plural sauvageons)

  1. wildling, plant spawned in nature without human intervention
    • 1970, Samuel Beckett, Mercier et Camier, Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, pages 11–12:
      Au centre, ou à peu près, s’élevait un hêtre pourpre immense et luisant, planté, à en croire l’enseigne grossièrement clouée au tronc, par un maréchal de France […] C’est sans doute à cet arbre que le square devait d’exister, conséquence dont le maréchal ne devait guère se douter, alors qu’à l’écart des quinconces, devant une société élégante et repue, il soutenait, dans le trou gras rosée vespérale, le frêle sauvageon.
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Noun

sauvageon m (plural sauvageons, feminine sauvageonne)

  1. youngster left for itself not put into education

Adjective

sauvageon (feminine sauvageonne, masculine plural sauvageons, feminine plural sauvageonnes)

  1. (relational) wildling

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