embabouiner
French, verb/ɑ̃.ba.bwi.ne/
embabouiner is spelled E-M-B-A-B-O-U-I-N-E-R (11 letters). Embabouiner is a French verb meaning “to flatter, butter up” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Engager quelqu’un par des caresses, par des paroles flatteuses, à faire ce qu’on souhaite de lui”.
What does embabouiner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to flatter, butter up
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Engager quelqu’un par des caresses, par des paroles flatteuses, à faire ce qu’on souhaite de lui.
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 embabouiner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- embabouinant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- embabouiné participle past
- embabouine first-person indicative present
- embabouines indicative present second-person
- embabouinons first-person indicative plural
- embabouinez indicative plural present
- embabouinent indicative plural present
- embabouinais first-person imperfect indicative
- embabouinait imperfect indicative singular
- embabouinions first-person imperfect indicative
- embabouiniez imperfect indicative plural
- embabouinaient imperfect indicative plural
- embabouinai first-person historic indicative
- embabouinas historic indicative past
- embabouina historic indicative past
- embabouinâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce embabouiner?
- /ɑ̃.ba.bwi.ne/
- \ɑ̃.ba.bwi.ne\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.