chlinguer
French, verb/ʃlɛ̃.ɡe/
chlinguer is spelled C-H-L-I-N-G-U-E-R (9 letters). Chlinguer is a French verb meaning “to stink, to reek” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Autre orthographe de schlinguer : sentir mauvais, puer”.
What does chlinguer mean in English?
verb
- 1
informalto stink, to reek
Ça chlingue ici, faut ouvrir les fenêtres les mecs.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Autre orthographe de schlinguer : sentir mauvais, puer.
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 chlinguer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- chlinguant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- chlingué participle past
- chlingue first-person indicative present
- chlingues indicative present second-person
- chlinguons first-person indicative plural
- chlinguez indicative plural present
- chlinguent indicative plural present
- chlinguais first-person imperfect indicative
- chlinguait imperfect indicative singular
- chlinguions first-person imperfect indicative
- chlinguiez imperfect indicative plural
- chlinguaient imperfect indicative plural
- chlinguai first-person historic indicative
- chlinguas historic indicative past
- chlingua historic indicative past
- chlinguâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce chlinguer?
- /ʃlɛ̃.ɡe/
- \ʃlɛ̃.ɡe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.