brouter
French, verb/bʁu.te/
brouter is spelled B-R-O-U-T-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 48,397th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Brouter is a French verb meaning “to graze; to browse” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Paître, manger les bourgeons, les pousses et les feuilles des arbres”.
What does brouter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to graze; to browse
- 2
slangto perform cunnilingus
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Paître, manger les bourgeons, les pousses et les feuilles des arbres. 2. Paître l’herbe, pacager. 3. Manger. 4. Sautiller en parlant de la scie ou du rabot, fonctionner de façon saccadée et irrégulière.
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 brouter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- broutant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- brouté participle past
- broute first-person indicative present
- broutes indicative present second-person
- broutons first-person indicative plural
- broutez indicative plural present
- broutent indicative plural present
- broutais first-person imperfect indicative
- broutait imperfect indicative singular
- broutions first-person imperfect indicative
- broutiez imperfect indicative plural
- broutaient imperfect indicative plural
- broutai first-person historic indicative
- broutas historic indicative past
- brouta historic indicative past
- broutâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce brouter?
- /bʁu.te/
- \bʁu.te\
- [bʁute]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to brouter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is brouter in French?
brouter appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).