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Les fumistes fumeurs
It's amazing that one can study a language for twelve years, live immersed in it for two, and still discover words that one didn't know or had always misunderstood.
When my colleagues at the lycée described students as fumistes, I always connected it with the verb fumer and between that and the context of the sentence, took it to mean "someone who does nothing but sit around all day and smoke". Possibly specifically smoke pot, but I wasn't sure.
Now in my slang dictionary, I have discovered that I had the general idea right, but I was still off. The dico describes a fumiste as "a lazy individual, one who doesn't want to work" and adds that literally, a fumiste is someone who works with le fumier.
You learn something every day.
srah - Saturday, 12 April 2003 - 6:32 AM
Tags: french, words
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