Malgudi Days Flashcards by Baptiste Barreau

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donner un coup de tête (de corne) à qn.

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to bunt sb.

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couver qc.

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to brood sth.

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traîner, flâner

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to loiter

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une offre, une soumission; un bateau ravitailleur, une navette

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a tender

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déroutant, déconcertant

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bewildering

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desséché, ratatiné, rabougri

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wizened

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une guirlande; une couronne, un collier de fleurs

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a garland

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rentrer; mettre, glisser qc. dans qc.

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to tuck

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un liseron

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a convolvulus

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la fumure

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the manuring

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triste, mélancolique; seul, délaissé

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forlorn

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embrouillé, confus

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muddled

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un souvenir; la mémoire

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recollection

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un tabouret

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a stool

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prospérer, se développer

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to flourish

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une hanche, un cuissot

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a haunch

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apercevoir, entrevoir

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to espy sth.

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pendre, pendouiller

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to dangle

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un petit (d’un animal)

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a cub

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roter; jaillir; cracher, vomir

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to belch

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un bandeau, une bannière; une bandelette

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a streamer

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caresser (un animal)

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to pat

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rôder, tourner autour

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to hover

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“à tout le monde”

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to all and sundry

un acrobate

a tumbler

se soulever (torse); avoir des hauts-le-coeur

to heave

un bracelet de cheville

an anklet

étaler, appliquer

to smear

exclure; effacer, occulter

to blot out

une taxe, un impôt, un prélèvement

a levy

un lit; un lit de camp; un lit d'enfant

a cot

une poitrine (de femme); le sein (figuré)

a bosom

une meule de foin

a haystack

se baisser, se pencher, se courber

to stoop

un mélange, une combinaison

a compound

très critique; blessant

scathing

déformé (contorsionné)

writhed