"French kiss" finally enters French dictionary

[dipsydoodle]

For centuries, there's been no official French word for the sloppy Gallic export "to French kiss" — though that certainly hasn't stopped any citizen from doing so.

Now the oversight has been rectified.

The one-word verb "galocher" — to kiss with tongues — is among new entries added to the "Petit Robert" 2014 French dictionary, which hit the shops Thursday.

It may surprise many that France — a country famed for its amorous exploits and which gave the world sex-symbol Brigitte Bardot, romantic photographer Robert Doiseau, and even scandal-hit former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn — is only just linguistically embracing the popular pastime.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57586833/french-kiss-finally-enters-french-dictionary/

[SwissTony]

1. I live in Holland and many Dutchies don't know what

"Dutch courage" is. And they're not very happy when you explain it to them.

[dipsydoodle]

2. I didn't know the origin of that

until it was mentioned here on the radio a week or back. It goes right back to when we fought alongside the Dutch about 400 years ago.

[SwissTony]

3. Didn't the Royal Navy used to give sailors a bit of rum just before a battle?

A bit of "Dutch courage" is probably a good thing, if you're in that situation.

[dipsydoodle]

5. I just looked that up since you mentioned it.

I hadn't realised a "tot" was a pint. Yes - they got a double ration of 2 tots / pints prior to a battle which they drunk neat !

I wondering if any of them even remembered there had been a battle after the event. :rof:;

[SwissTony]

6. Wow. Two pints of rum and neat at that. I'd have been out of it and probably keel-hauled.

I suspect the practice was fairly common in all navies (OK, maybe the French drank brandy or champagne...ha ha).

I wonder if the infantry in the army got something similar.

[MrScorpio]

7. They're not too happy with "Dutch Oven" either. mt

[SwissTony]

8. Quite true.

I don't know why this should be attributed to the Dutch. I suspect this sort of behaviour has been around for many, many years.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

4. OK, it's been 6 hours since the OP and someone's gotta ask:

What about "French Tickler?"

[warrprayer]

9. glad you brought that up

[olddots]

10. Yeah what about the " New Jersey Kiss " ???????

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

11. I gotcher "New Jersey Kiss" right here, olddots

... just kidding. I got no idea what a New Jersey Kiss might be. Except it probably involves skinned knuckles.

[Locut0s]

13. Sounds like mod slang for snuffing some one...

Hay Tony take him down to the docks and give him the New Jersey Kiss.

[SwissTony]

15. Is that the same as a Glasgow kiss? n/t

[dimbear]

12. The English have the expression 'to take French leave.' (desert or go AWOL) French translation:

filer a l'anglaise

You guessed it.

To take English leave.

[Locut0s]

14. The english and the french will never get along...

As a Canadian I can verify this.