tire-bouchon

See also: tirebouchon

French

Alternative forms

tirebouchon

Etymology

From tirer +‎ bouchon.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tiʁ.bu.ʃɔ̃/

Noun

tire-bouchon m (plural tire-bouchons)

corkscrew (to pull corks out of bottles)

Derived terms

tire-bouchonner
tirebouchonner

Descendants

→ Bulgarian: тирбушо́н (tirbušón)
→ Catalan: tirabuixó
→ Romanian: tirbușon
→ Ottoman Turkish: تیربوشون (tirbuşon), طرابشون (terabeşon); թիրպուշօն (tirbuşon)
- Turkish: tirbuşon

Further reading

“tire-bouchon” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
“tire-bouchon” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
“tire-bouchon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from French tire-bouchon.

Noun

tire-bouchon m (plural tire-bouchons)

(Jersey) corkscrew

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