faux-fuyant

French, noun/fo.fɥi.jɑ̃/

faux-fuyant is a French masculine noun meaning “prevarication, pretext” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Défaite ; échappatoire”.

What does faux-fuyant mean in English?

noun

1
masculineprevarication, pretext

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Défaite ; échappatoire.

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 faux-fuyant

faux-fuyants plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce faux-fuyant?

/fo.fɥi.jɑ̃/
\fo.fɥi.jɑ̃\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to faux-fuyant

prevarication

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.