blackbouler
French, verb/blak.bu.le/
blackbouler is spelled B-L-A-C-K-B-O-U-L-E-R (11 letters). Blackbouler is a French verb meaning “to blackball” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Refuser l’admission d’un candidat dans un club, ce qui se faisait autrefois en lui donnant des boules noires”.
What does blackbouler mean in English?
verb
- 1
to blackball
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Refuser l’admission d’un candidat dans un club, ce qui se faisait autrefois en lui donnant des boules noires. 2. Faire perdre à une élection. 3. Refuser l’admission de quelqu’un lors d’un examen.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of blackbouler
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- blackboulant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- blackboulé participle past
- blackboule first-person indicative present
- blackboules indicative present second-person
- blackboulons first-person indicative plural
- blackboulez indicative plural present
- blackboulent indicative plural present
- blackboulais first-person imperfect indicative
- blackboulait imperfect indicative singular
- blackboulions first-person imperfect indicative
- blackbouliez imperfect indicative plural
- blackboulaient imperfect indicative plural
- blackboulai first-person historic indicative
- blackboulas historic indicative past
- blackboula historic indicative past
- blackboulâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce blackbouler?
- /blak.bu.le/
- \blak.bu.le\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.