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risque
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See also: risqué
English
Etymology 1
See risqué.
Adjective
risque (comparative more risque, superlative most risque)
- (US) Alternative form of risqué.
- 2016 January 24, Les Chappell, “An Uneven Season of The Simpsons Streaks to an Excellent Conclusion: ‘Natural Born Kissers’ (season nine, episode 25, originally aired 05/17/1998)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 12 October 2021:
- But despite being the first episode of The Simpsons to feature Marge [Simpson]'s naked butt, there's nothing particularly risque about any of the nudity—if anything, the pitchfork-wielding farmer's threat of "ass-forking" feels the most over the line.
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Noun
risque (countable and uncountable, plural risques)
Verb
risque (third-person singular simple present risques, present participle risquing, simple past and past participle risqued)
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French
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French risque (first attested in 1578), borrowed from Old Italian risco (modern Italian rischio).
Pronunciation
Noun
risque m (plural risques)
- risk
- Synonym: danger m
- le risque d'une nouvelle guerre mondiale
- the risk of a new world war
- Je n'aime pas trop prendre des risques.
- I don't like taking risks that much.
Derived terms
Descendants
Verb
risque
- inflection of risquer:
Further reading
- “risque”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Galician
Verb
risque
- inflection of riscar:
Portuguese
Verb
risque
- inflection of riscar:
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