Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

épater le bourgeois

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: epa-ter le bour-geois
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

17

Letters

3

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To scandalize, provoke the middle class.

Literary

Example Sentences

"All that was needed were the heroes willing to act out the fantasies the public now accepted as reality: the hero, as hedonist, who dares to do in public what the public wants to see. It was épater les bourgeois as a bourgeois calling."

Etymology

Borrowed from French épater le bourgeois (“amaze the bourgeois”).

Usage

Literary

Inflected Forms

épater la bourgeoisie (alternative)

Questions

What does épater le bourgeois mean?: To scandalize, provoke the middle class.
Where does épater le bourgeois come from?: Borrowed from French épater le bourgeois (“amaze the bourgeois”).

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