cuite
See also: cuité
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɥit/
Etymology 1
From cuire.
Noun
cuite f (plural cuites)
- batch of ore, porcelain or the like for smelting; viewed economically, the time an occurrence of smelting takes
- Synonym: fournée
- 1753, Christophe-André Schlutter, “CXXXIII. De le fabrication des vitriols.”, in M. Hellot, transl., De la fonte des mines, des fonderies, des grillages, des fourneaux de fonte, d’affinage, de raffinage, des fabriques de vitriol, de potasse, &c., volume 2, Paris: Jean-Thomas Hérissant; Jacques-Noël Pissot, page 641:
- Lorsque les grandes cuves sont pleines de lessive, on en commence les cuites. La premiere n’étant que de lessive sauvage, dure vingt-six à trente heures; mais lorsqu’on on peut remplir avec de la lessive qui a déja fourni du vitriol, alors la cuite ne dure que dix-huit à vingt heures.
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- (slang) piss-up (UK), bender (US)
- Synonym: biture
- J’ai pris une cuite hier soir. ― I got plastered last night.
- 2019, Alain Damasio, chapter 3, in Les furtifs [The Stealthies], La Volte, →ISBN:
- Un café qui, comme la plupart, depuis que la ville avait été privatisée, n’était plus du tout un lieu de braillades, de petits vieux, d’échanges ou de cuites complices mais un ersatz de bureau pour travailleurs auto-entrepris.
- A café which, like most of them since the city had been privatized, was no longer a place for shouting matches, little old men, conversations or people getting plastered together, but an ersatz office for self-employed workers.
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Regular conjugated form of cuiter
Verb
cuite
- inflection of cuiter:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “cuite”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Spanish
Verb
cuite
- inflection of cuitar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
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