| Main form | morue |
| Transcribed form | |
| Pronunciation | |
| Grammatical description | noun, feminine |
| Strength | † strong |
| Translation | a low-level whore |
| Literal translation | |
| Note | morue (originally cod), like "merlan" or "maquereau", is a word referring originally to fish. "la morue" was obviously the most common fish, from the Middle Ages on (the only one you could dry, salt, and keep for all those periods when you had to eat fish). furthermore, unwashed female genitals (and, from the 16th to the 19th century, washing was not a priority of most French people, rich or poor)definitely tend, after a few days, to smell in the not-so-refined way of not-so-fresh fish, be it cod or any other... |
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