ébrouer
French, verb/e.bʁu.e/
ébrouer is spelled É-B-R-O-U-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 30 million words in written French, the 175,987th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ébrouer is a French verb meaning “to snort” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Laver, passer dans l’eau un tissu au sortir du métier dans le but ensuite de le teindre”.
What does ébrouer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to snort
- 2
to flap its wings
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Laver, passer dans l’eau un tissu au sortir du métier dans le but ensuite de le teindre.
verb: 1. Pousser un ronflement ou un éternuement, en parlant de certains animaux domestiques chassant l’air de leurs naseaux. 2. Se secouer, s’agiter pour chasser l’eau, rincer, égoutter. 3. Se secouer, s’agiter, s’ébattre (sans idée de rinçage, d’égouttage). 4. Se débarrasser de quelque chose.
verb: 1. Extraire le brou des noix.
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 ébrouer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- ébrouant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- ébroué participle past
- ébroue first-person indicative present
- ébroues indicative present second-person
- ébrouons first-person indicative plural
- ébrouez indicative plural present
- ébrouent indicative plural present
- ébrouais first-person imperfect indicative
- ébrouait imperfect indicative singular
- ébrouions first-person imperfect indicative
- ébrouiez imperfect indicative plural
- ébrouaient imperfect indicative plural
- ébrouai first-person historic indicative
- ébrouas historic indicative past
- ébroua historic indicative past
- ébrouâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ébrouer?
- /e.bʁu.e/
- \e.bʁu.e\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is ébrouer in French?
ébrouer appears about once in every 30 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).