bourriner
French, verb/bu.ʁi.ne/
bourriner is spelled B-O-U-R-R-I-N-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 32 million words in written French, the 179,956th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bourriner is a French verb meaning “to act in a loutish manner” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Travailler, agir sans finesse, sans réflexion”.
What does bourriner mean in English?
verb
- 1
colloquialto act in a loutish manner
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Travailler, agir sans finesse, sans réflexion. 2. Privilégier la force physique. 3. Posséder sexuellement.
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 bourriner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- bourrinant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- bourriné participle past
- bourrine first-person indicative present
- bourrines indicative present second-person
- bourrinons first-person indicative plural
- bourrinez indicative plural present
- bourrinent indicative plural present
- bourrinais first-person imperfect indicative
- bourrinait imperfect indicative singular
- bourrinions first-person imperfect indicative
- bourriniez imperfect indicative plural
- bourrinaient imperfect indicative plural
- bourrinai first-person historic indicative
- bourrinas historic indicative past
- bourrina historic indicative past
- bourrinâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bourriner?
- /bu.ʁi.ne/
- \bu.ʁi.ne\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is bourriner in French?
bourriner appears about once in every 32 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).