couillon

Inherited from Middle French couillon, from Old French coillon (“testicle”), from Late Latin cōleōnem, derived from Latin cōleus (“sack, bag; scrotum”). By surface analysis, couille +‎ -on. Compare Occitan colhon.

• IPA^(key): /ku.jɔ̃/

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couillon m (plural couillons, feminine couillonne)

1. (vulgar) dickhead, bastard, pillock

   Il t’a vraiment trompée ? J’étais sûr que c’était un couillon, ce type.

   He really cheated on you? I knew that guy was a bastard.

2. (vulgar) coward

   C’est un vrai couillon, il est pas capable d’aborder une fille.

   He's a real coward, he's not capable of approaching a girl.

3. (card games) a Belgian card game that is also played in Limburg and on the border of Luxemburg and Germany
4. (Louisiana) joker, funny person; nut, nutter
5. (Louisiana) fool, simpleton, nitwit

couillon (feminine couillonne, masculine plural couillons, feminine plural couillonnes)

1. (vulgar) fucking stupid
2. (Louisiana) foolish

• As both an adjective and a noun, couillon is not as vulgar or strong in Louisiana French or even in France.

• couille

• “couillon” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
• “couillon” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
• “couillon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• Dictionary of Louisiana French: As Spoken in Cajun, Creole, and American Indian Communities (2009; →ISBN; →ISBN)
• A detailed explanation of the couillon card game family

From Old French coillon.

couillon m (plural couillons)

1. (vulgar) dickhead, bastard
   • 1552, François Rabelais, Le Tiers Livre:

     Il est (dist lors frere Ian) sourd. Il n'entend ce que tu luy diz couillon.

     He is (said their brother Jan) deaf. He can't hear what you say, dickhead.

• couille

• French: couillon
• → Alemannic German: Gajung
• → German: Kujon (see there for further descendants)