Meanings
- Pronunciation spelling indicating a non-French-speaker pronouncing the French word voulez.
Find a little can-can girl or something. Voolay-voo coushay avec moi and all that.
2011, Donna Tartt, The Secret History, page 502 more examples
Our troops learned French quickly, and the street echoed to "Voolay voo cusha avick mores," and the dames rapidly grasped Tommy's French.
1939, Patrick A. Meade, Born to Trouble, page 158His sallow skin looked as though it had been painted with walnut stain, and he spoke French fast but with an entirely English pronunciation. His "combiangs" and "ker voolay voos" raced through the tongue of Moliere like a rusty lawn mower.
1973, Victor Sawdon Pritchett, Midnight Oil, page 17
Origin
Spelling representing a U.S. pronunciation of the French word voulez.
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