drague
French, noun
drague is a French feminine noun meaning “a dredge (a dredging machine)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of draguer. With an accent, dragué is a different word: “past participle of draguer”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Filet muni d’un racloir servant à la pêche à la traîne”.
What does drague mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininea dredge (a dredging machine)
- 2
femininea dragnet
noun
- 1
colloquialfemininepickup, seduction
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
past participle of draguer
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Filet muni d’un racloir servant à la pêche à la traîne. 2. Racloire en fer adaptée au filet qui sert à racler le fond de la mer et dont on se sert dans la pêche aux huîtres et dans celle des moules. 3. Câble lesté de grappins de fer qu'on promène au fond de l'eau. 4. Synonyme de dragueur (bateau faisant des opérations de dragage).
noun: 1. Celui qui vend de la drague, des plantes médicinales. 2. Médecin.
noun: 1. Recherche d’une aventure sexuelle. 2. Tentative de séduction.
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 drague
- dragues plural
- draguée feminine
- dragués masculine plural
- draguées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to drague
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is drague in French?
drague appears 4.6 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).