bêtise
/beɪˈtiːz/
bêtise noun: silliness, folly, stupidity.
Noun
bêtise (countable and uncountable, plural bêtises)
- silliness, folly, stupidity
- […] Flicflac will trill you off fifty in ten minutes, and wonder at the bêtise of the Briton, who has never a word to say.1840, M. A. Titmarsh [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], The Paris Sketch Book, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Macrone, […], →OCLC
Forms of bêtise
| plural | bêtises |
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Origin of bêtise
Unadapted borrowing from French bêtise.
Words that rhyme with bêtise
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- dees
- disease
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- frieze
- Japanese
- Keyes
- leese
- overseas
- pease
- please
- Portuguese
- sneeze
- tweeze
- appease
- bes
- bez
- blue cheese
- botanese
- Burmese
- expertise
- fries
- greeze
- Guyanese
- he's
- Javanese
- keys
- legalese
- Louise
- Maltese
- Ningbonese
- octopodes
- Pekingese
- Shanghainese
- she's
- Sinhalese
- Socrates
- tees
- Versaillese
- Viennese
- Vietnamese
- a little bit of bread and no cheese
- academese
Questions about bêtise
- What does bêtise mean?
- Bêtise means silliness, folly, stupidity.
- What part of speech is bêtise?
- Bêtise is a noun.
- How do you pronounce bêtise?
- Bêtise is pronounced /beɪˈtiːz/.
- What is the plural of bêtise?
- The plural of bêtise is bêtises.
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