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You are in the right place to discover everything you need to know about the funny French idiom “Faux cul”.
It includes a detailed definition of what it is and how you can use it in a dialogue with an audio example. Along with the cool informations we sprinkled like synonyms, slow pronunciation audio, dialogue example and more!
Oh and if you are interested, you will find our others idioms tutorials on this page and the ultimate directory of all our French words pages on this page. Wishing you a happy learning!
Slow pronunciation
Normal pronunciation
It literally means:
You probably wonder why “Faux-cul” (Fake ass) ended up meaning “Hypocrite” in French?
Well, the “fake ass” originally referred to a padding that women wore under their dresses to increase the apparent volume of their butt.
Since the usage of such trick can be qualified as misleading and hypocritical, we ended up using it more globally to refer to a hypocritical person. (No matter if this person’s butt is real or not…)
Use it simply the same way you would use the word “Hypocrite“. But beware that it’s familiar and can be perceived as aggressive depending on the context.
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