From Amy Thomas, author of Paris, My Sweet. A love affair with Paris, New York, sweets and, now, a little girl named Parker.
Thursday, September 2, 2010
French word of the day: fripon
Def: Roguish (adj) or a rascal. My friends, Lionel & Sylvia, who shared this lovely bottle of champagne with me, told me "fripon" meant "kinky", which is 10x better than "roguish" and "rascal". But, in fact, I like them all.
"Kinky" in Español is "rizado" ... which has none of the charm of the sound of "fripon" ..
ReplyDeleteYour friends should learn French. What dictionary translates fripon into kinky? Rascal is one correct translation.
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