tournicoter
French, verb/tuʁ.ni.kɔ.te/
tournicoter is a French verb meaning “to flit around” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Tourner en de petits ronds, en de nombreux va-et-vient”.
What does tournicoter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to flit around
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Tourner en de petits ronds, en de nombreux va-et-vient.
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 tournicoter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- tournicotant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- tournicoté participle past
- tournicote first-person indicative present
- tournicotes indicative present second-person
- tournicotons first-person indicative plural
- tournicotez indicative plural present
- tournicotent indicative plural present
- tournicotais first-person imperfect indicative
- tournicotait imperfect indicative singular
- tournicotions first-person imperfect indicative
- tournicotiez imperfect indicative plural
- tournicotaient imperfect indicative plural
- tournicotai first-person historic indicative
- tournicotas historic indicative past
- tournicota historic indicative past
- tournicotâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tournicoter?
- /tuʁ.ni.kɔ.te/
- \tuʁ.ni.kɔ.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.