puer (pooay), v. infinitive

to stink, to have a very bad smell

puant pres. part. stinking
pué past part. stank

Expressions:
puer de la gueule = to have bad breath
puer des pieds = to have stinky feet
ça pue! = it stinks!


To show that something smells badly or is repugnant, hold your nose.

Ah, yes! I know this word! So easy to remember because it sounds like "poo"

la gueule (guhl)

1. mouth of an animal (zoo.)
2. mouth or face of a person

expressions:
Coup de gueule
1 Dispute entre plusieurs personnes. [Familier].
"A dispute between several persons".
2 Expression d'un mécontentement émise par une seule personne.
"An expression of displeasure by one person."

Grande gueule
Personne qui parle haut et fort.
"A person who speaks loudly and strongly." "A big-mouth."

Fine gueule
Fin gourmet
"A fine gourmet"

oiseau (wah-zoh), masculine noun

bird

Avoir une cervelle d'oiseau, Etre étourdi (to be scatterbrained)
lit. "To have a bird brain."

Etre un oiseau rare to be a person of many good qualities.
lit. "To be a rare bird."

Un drôle d'oiseau Une personne bizarre. A Bizarre person.
lit. "Funny bird"

avoir raison, expression

to be right

Prouver que j'ai raison serait accorder que je puis avoir tort. - Pierre Augustin Caron de BEAUMARCHAIS, Le Mariage de Figaro, acte I, scène I
Proving that I am right would be to admit that I could be wrong.

"C'est une belle chose d'être honnête, mais il est également important d' avoir raison." - Winston Churchill
It's a beautiful thing to be honest, but it's just as important to be right.

"L'amitié, ce n'est pas d'être avec ses amis quand ils ont raison, c'est d'être avec eux même quand ils ont tort." -André Malraux
Friendship, it's not to be with your friends when they are right, it's to be with them also when they are wrong.

"C'est une belle chose d'être honnête, mais il est également important d' avoir raison." - Winston Churchill

It would be more idiomatic English to translate the Churchill saying,
"It's a good thing to be truthful, but it is just as important to be right."

I like the second one better. It is less literal and probably closer to how it is supposed to be translated.

I found Winston's original words.

glouglou masc. noun

1. glug-glug, gurgle, bubbling; faire glouglou to bubble, to gurgle
2. Gobble-gobble (of turkey); coo (of pigeon)

glouglouter verb

1. (of liquid) to gurgle, bubble
2. (of turkey) to gobble

Mansion's French-English Dictionary

"Le dindon glougloute." The turkey gobbles.

"Les bébés glougloutent." The babies are qurgling.

le baba , noun

Sponge-cake (usually with currents) steeped in rum syrup

baba invarient adj.

Dumfounded, flabbergasted.

J'en suis resté baba.