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emmerdeur

pain in the neck

noun em-mair-DUR Rare

Also means

pest

Usage Note

Emmerdeur is a coarse, informal word for someone who is persistently annoying or causes trouble. It derives from emmerder (to bother, to piss off). The feminine form is emmerdeuse. It is considered vulgar and unsuitable for formal contexts.

Examples

"Cet emmerdeur nous a encore retardés."

Natural Translation

That pest held us up again.

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