trouille

See also: trouillé

French

Etymology

Old French troillier (“to grind”) (from truil, troil (“grape press”)) or Dutch drol (“to go to stool", "dejection”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tʁuj/

Noun

trouille f (plural trouilles)

(colloquial) fear

Derived terms

Further reading

“trouille” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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