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Google France: looked for 'flabugineux'
This comes from a blog with people playing with language:
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C'est parti pour un sixiÞme petit jeu, sur un scÚnario du
flabugineux moutch!

from Dictionaire Godefroi,; ancien français:
flaber , voir fabler

Fabler 2. fablement, s,m., fable, faubeor, fablaor, fableur, flabeeur, flabeur s,m., auteur the fabliaux, des fables souvent avec l' idée de menteur, tromper
Fabler,-eir, faubler, fabler flabler verbe!

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yeahbut, it's all French to me! (I gather it's all about fables.)

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Coryate describes the woodcutter's mode of speech as 'antipriscianisticall' (after Priscian-us, name of a celebrated Roman grammarian) meaning ungrammatical, an adjective of his own manufacture which has justifiably failed to find a place in the Oxford English Dictionary
- Michael Strachan, The life and adventures of Thomas Coryate

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Escaping the flagrant evidence? grin

"flabuginous: something which is deceptive or fraudulent"
Compare: "flabugineux"

flabeeur, flabeur s,m., auteur the fabliaux, des fables souvent avec l' idée de menteur, tromper
Fabler,-eir, faubler, fabler flabler verbe!

It's all French to me too, but to stick to the facts, it says:
"with the idea of a liar, to deceive." = deceptive or fraudulent.

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C'est parti pour un sixième petit jeu, sur un scénario du
flabugineux moutch!


"One swallow does not a spring make."Old French flaber varying with falber makes sense: simple metathesis. (It is related to Spanish hablar 'to speak' < Latin fabulo 'to tell tales'.) But, *flabugineux does not appear in Godefroy's Dictionnaire. What of the -ugineux? I guess that the -x makes it plural, but what of the -gineu-? Whence that? Could have something to do with genou 'knee', I suppose, or oxygène 'oxygen[/i]. Still, it's closer than anything else I've seen, but for all we know the guy who posted it, he may got it from reading the Graniloquent Dictionary.


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The -x does not make it necessarily plural. It's an adverb or adjectif to start with.
précieux , avantageux , prétentieux.
When nouned it becomes: le précieux-les précieux ( masc.) la précieuse- les précieuses (fem.)
("Les Précieuses Ridicules" by Molière)

Adj. Le docteur pretentieux - les docteur pretentieux. La femme prétentieuse - les femmes prétentieuses.( grin ).
True, those guys are playing with it and it can come from Graniloquent Dictionary as they are juggling with English words too in that thread.

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The -x does not make it necessarily plural.

Right you are. Dim in the pre-caffeine morning me.


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