Meanings
present singular third person tutoyers · participle present tutoyering · participle past tutoyered · past tutoyered
- transitiveTo address (someone) in French using the familiar second-person pronoun tu; to thou.
As I had begged Goethe to tutoyer me, he sent me a message to say, I must really remain more than the two days I had named, otherwise he should never get into the way of doing so.
1862, The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, volume 115, page 1321 more example
[…] Corporal Cornichon, walking straight up to the bar, "tutoyering" me all the time in the most horridly familiar manner, clapped me on the back, and asked me to take a glass of cognac with him.
1866, William Stamer, Recollections of a Life of Adventure, volume 1, page 83Synonyms: tutoy
Synonyms & antonyms
verbTo address (someone) in French using the familiar second-person pronoun tu; to thou.
Origin
- Frenchtutoyer
- Frenchtutoyer
- Englishtutoyer
Borrowed from French tutoyer.
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