Wednesday 13 June 2012

Des buts du Dictionnaithe - Dictionary snippets

Dictionnaire Jersiais-Français contcheint un amas d'entrées tchi connaîssent la caûque-souothis ou f'thaient rithe les cats. Dans chutte séthie, j'en présentons en Angliais tchiqu's'eunes d'întéthêt.
A series of out-of-the-ordinary entries translated from the Dictionnaire Jersiais-Français.
tchéthache or tchéthasse, tchérache, etc. or tchiéthache, etc., s.f.
1. Thin, hard skin. From the old cow - it's nothing but hard skin...
2. By extension, and in a pejorative sense, the skin of humans. What has he got into his tchéthasse, then? - under his skin, in his head. We should say that the old folk often pronounced it tchiéthache.
Cf. F. cuirasse = figuratively, protective casing of certain animals.

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