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sucre bleu

sucre bleu interjection: expressing anger or surprise.

Interjection

  1. (colloquial, humorous) Expressing anger or surprise.
    • 2/17/1977, Robert J. Tobin, Time Magazine-Letters to the Editor https://archive.today/20130630104459/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,914748-3,00.html
      Sucre bleu! Louis Bechereau will be sure to wreak his Gallic spleen in that Great Aerodrome in the Sky…
    • Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin raced down to the door and gasped at what stood before him. "Sucre bleu!" he screamed2006, Unknown, University of Minnesota Morris-The Weight https://web.archive.org/web/20070613165602/http://www.mrs.umn.edu/register/archives/v18/URegV18AFE.pdf

Origin of sucre bleu

Literally "blue sugar"; a jocular corruption of the French sacrebleu (“good heavens”).

Questions about sucre bleu

What does sucre bleu mean?
Sucre bleu means expressing anger or surprise.
What part of speech is sucre bleu?
Sucre bleu is an interjection.

Words near sucre bleu in the dictionary

  1. sucrase
  2. sucrases
  3. sucrate
  4. sucrates
  5. sucre
  6. sucre bleu
  7. sucres
  8. sucrier
  9. sucriers
  10. sucro-
  11. sucroferric

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