Noun: pif
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | pif |
| Plural m | pifs |
Sample Sentences
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un gros pif (a big conk)
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avoir du pif (to have flair, to be intuitive)
Nouns inflected like pif
trichogramme,
wintergreen,
urinoir,
contrespionnage,
aréomètre,
palefroi,
whiskey,
whippin,
tee-shirt,
hypocycloïde,
surrisque,
lanternon,
dissentiment,
phonogramme,
phonographe,
trioxygène,
fétichisme,
synode,
synthé,
modérantisme, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Possibly onomatopoeic. Compare however Central Franconian Pief, Peif (“stovepipe; flute”), akin to Dutch pijp, German Pfeife. See: Dutch Nouns '
pijp', German Nouns '
Pfeife'.
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