turlupiner
French, verb/tyʁ.ly.pi.ne/
turlupiner is spelled T-U-R-L-U-P-I-N-E-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 78 million words in written French, the 276,145th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Turlupiner is a French verb meaning “to bother, to exasperate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire des turlupinades, des mauvaises plaisanteries”.
What does turlupiner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to bother, to exasperate
- 2
to make fun of, to take the mickey out of
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire des turlupinades, des mauvaises plaisanteries. 2. Tracasser.
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 turlupiner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- turlupinant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- turlupiné participle past
- turlupine first-person indicative present
- turlupines indicative present second-person
- turlupinons first-person indicative plural
- turlupinez indicative plural present
- turlupinent indicative plural present
- turlupinais first-person imperfect indicative
- turlupinait imperfect indicative singular
- turlupinions first-person imperfect indicative
- turlupiniez imperfect indicative plural
- turlupinaient imperfect indicative plural
- turlupinai first-person historic indicative
- turlupinas historic indicative past
- turlupina historic indicative past
- turlupinâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce turlupiner?
- /tyʁ.ly.pi.ne/
- \tyʁ.ly.pi.ne\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is turlupiner in French?
turlupiner appears about once in every 78 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).