glandouiller
French, verb/ɡlɑ̃.du.je/
glandouiller is spelled G-L-A-N-D-O-U-I-L-L-E-R (12 letters) and appears about once in every 26 million words in written French, the 162,920th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Glandouiller is a French verb meaning “to do nothing; to bum around all day” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Glander, ne rien faire”.
What does glandouiller mean in English?
verb
- 1
to do nothing; to bum around all day
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Glander, ne rien faire.
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 glandouiller
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- glandouillant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- glandouillé participle past
- glandouille first-person indicative present
- glandouilles indicative present second-person
- glandouillons first-person indicative plural
- glandouillez indicative plural present
- glandouillent indicative plural present
- glandouillais first-person imperfect indicative
- glandouillait imperfect indicative singular
- glandouillions first-person imperfect indicative
- glandouilliez imperfect indicative plural
- glandouillaient imperfect indicative plural
- glandouillai first-person historic indicative
- glandouillas historic indicative past
- glandouilla historic indicative past
- glandouillâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce glandouiller?
- /ɡlɑ̃.du.je/
- \ɡlɑ̃.du.je\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to glandouiller
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is glandouiller in French?
glandouiller appears about once in every 26 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).