parley-voo

parley-voo
I. \\|pärlē|vü\ noun (-s)
Etymology: French parlez-vous do you speak (in parlez-vous français? do you speak French?)
1. : the French language

no words to spell, no sums to do … and no parley-voo — J.R.Lowell

2. usually capitalized : frenchman

hardy British tars who had pity on a poor Parley-voo — W.S.Gilbert

II. intransitive verb (-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: French parlez-vous
: talk; especially : to speak French or another language besides English

nice to stop and parley-voo a second — Sinclair Lewis


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