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bagou
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French
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Etymology
According to the Trésor de la langue française informatisé, ba from bavarder and gou from Old French gole (modern French gueule).
Pronunciation
Noun
bagou m (plural bagous)
- glibness, volubility, gift of the gab
- Synonym: tchatche
- 1973 May 14, Jean-Louis Bory, “Romance d'un jeune homme pauvre”, in Le Nouvel Observateur, →ISSN, page 79:
- Mais, justement, c'est fini, il ne s'y passe rien [St-Germain-des-Prés] — d'où chez Alexandre, conquérant de rien, ce bagou compensatoire.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- sales pitch
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Further reading
- “bagou”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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