Etymology

poilu

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Today it means: A French infantryman during the First World War Full definition →

French poilu
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The story

  1. French · borrowed frompoilu“brave”
  2. English todaypoilu

Borrowed from French poilu (“brave”). Doublet of plew.

Words from the same roots

Frenchpoilu all →

plew

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.