parlez-vous

Noun

parleyvoo (countable and uncountable, plural parleyvoos)

1. The French language, especially as understood by an English person.
   • Lynch. Let him alone. He's back from Paris […] Zoe. O go on! Give us some parleyvoo.1922 February 2, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC
2. (archaic, countable) A French person.
   • [O]ne of these d—d Parlivoos will go farther with some women in a day, than an Englishman in a month—all owing to their impudence; for a common man has as much impudence in France as a man-midwife has in England.1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt, published 2008, page 276

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