ébousiner
French, verb/e.bu.zi.ne/
ébousiner is spelled É-B-O-U-S-I-N-E-R (9 letters). Ébousiner is a French verb meaning “to remove the 'soft crust' of a stone (which it has when taken out of the quarry)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Dépouiller, avec la pointe du marteau, le bousin, et pénétrer jusqu'au vif”.
What does ébousiner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to remove the 'soft crust' of a stone (which it has when taken out of the quarry)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Dépouiller, avec la pointe du marteau, le bousin, et pénétrer jusqu'au vif.
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 ébousiner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- ébousinant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- ébousiné participle past
- ébousine first-person indicative present
- ébousines indicative present second-person
- ébousinons first-person indicative plural
- ébousinez indicative plural present
- ébousinent indicative plural present
- ébousinais first-person imperfect indicative
- ébousinait imperfect indicative singular
- ébousinions first-person imperfect indicative
- ébousiniez imperfect indicative plural
- ébousinaient imperfect indicative plural
- ébousinai first-person historic indicative
- ébousinas historic indicative past
- ébousina historic indicative past
- ébousinâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ébousiner?
- /e.bu.zi.ne/
- \e.bu.zi.ne\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.