fouailler
French, verb/fwa.je/
fouailler is spelled F-O-U-A-I-L-L-E-R (9 letters). Fouailler is a French verb meaning “to whip, lash” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Frapper de coups de fouet répétés”.
What does fouailler mean in English?
verb
- 1
to whip, lash
- 2
to attack, lambast, excoriate
- 3
to whip up (an emotion etc.); to galvanize
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Frapper de coups de fouet répétés. 2. Fustiger, stigmatiser. 3. Remuer vivement la queue, pour un cheval.
verb: 1. Fouiller les entrailles. 2. Fouiller en profondeur.
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 fouailler
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- fouaillant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- fouaillé participle past
- fouaille first-person indicative present
- fouailles indicative present second-person
- fouaillons first-person indicative plural
- fouaillez indicative plural present
- fouaillent indicative plural present
- fouaillais first-person imperfect indicative
- fouaillait imperfect indicative singular
- fouaillions first-person imperfect indicative
- fouailliez imperfect indicative plural
- fouaillaient imperfect indicative plural
- fouaillai first-person historic indicative
- fouaillas historic indicative past
- fouailla historic indicative past
- fouaillâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fouailler?
- /fwa.je/
- \fwɑ.je\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.