fétu

See also: fetu

French

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin festucum, from Latin festūca. Compare fétuque.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /fe.ty/
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Noun

fétu m (plural fétus)

(countable) straw (dried stalk of a cereal plant)
(figurative) straw (something proverbially worthless)

Derived terms

fétu-en-cul

Related terms

fétuque

Further reading

“fétu” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
“fétu”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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