Touché - Wiktionary

Home » What Does Touche Mean In French » Touché - Wiktionary

Maybe your like

See also: touche and tòuchè

English

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

Borrowed from French touché, past participle of toucher (“to touch”). More at touch.

Pronunciation

[edit]
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈtuː.ʃeɪ/, /tuːˈʃeɪ/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • (US) IPA(key): /tuːˈʃeɪ/
  • Rhymes: -eɪ

Interjection

[edit]

touché

  1. (fencing) An acknowledgement of a hit.
  2. (transferred sense) An acknowledgement of the validity, appropriateness, or superiority of an opponent's argument or statement in a discussion.
    • 1986, John Hughes, Pretty in Pink:Duckie: You know what an older woman does for me?Iona: Changes your diapers?Duckie: Touché.

Translations

[edit] fencing: acknowledgement of a hit
  • Arabic: مَلْمُوس (malmūs)
  • Catalan: touché (ca)
  • Chinese: Mandarin: 有了 (zh) (yǒule)
  • Finnish: touché (fi)
  • French: touché (fr) m
  • Hebrew: נגוּע m (nagúa)
  • Hungarian: tus (hu)
  • Japanese: トウシュ (toushu)
  • Korean: 투셰 (tusye)
  • Marathi: टूशे (ṭūśe)
  • Polish: trafienie (pl)
  • Portuguese: touché (pt)
  • Russian: туше́ (ru) (tušé)
  • Spanish: touché
  • Swedish: touché (sv)
acknowledgement — see also you're right
  • Arabic: أَصَبْتَ (ʔaṣabta), مَعَكَ حَقّ (maʕaka ḥaqq)
  • Catalan: touché (ca)
  • Chinese: Mandarin: 不錯 / 不错 (zh) (bùcuò), 說得對 / 说得对 (shuōdeduì)
  • Czech: touché (cs), zásah (cs), trefa (cs)
  • Dutch: touché (nl)
  • Finnish: naulan kantaan
  • French: touché (fr)
  • German: touché
  • Hungarian: touché (hu), jogos (hu), ott a pont
  • Italian: touché (it)
  • Japanese: 一本取られた (いっぽんとられた, ippon torareta)
  • Portuguese: touché (pt)
  • Russian: туше́ (ru) (tušé)
  • Spanish: touché, buen punto
  • Swedish: touché (sv)

Anagrams

[edit]
  • Te-chou

French

[edit]

Pronunciation

[edit]
  • IPA(key): /tu.ʃe/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Audio (France (Vosges)):(file)
  • Audio (France (Somain)):(file)

Participle

[edit]

touché (feminine touchée, masculine plural touchés, feminine plural touchées)

  1. past participle of toucher

Noun

[edit]

touché

  1. (Can we clean up(+) this sense?) (Canadian football) A six-point score occurring when the ball enters possession of a team's player in the opponent's end zone.

Anagrams

[edit]
  • choute

Louisiana Creole

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

From French toucher (“to touch”).

Verb

[edit]

touché

  1. to touch

References

[edit]
  • Alcée Fortier, Louisiana Folktales

Portuguese

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

Unadapted borrowing from French touché. Piecewise doublet of tocado.

Pronunciation

[edit]
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /tuˈʃe/
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /tuˈʃe/, /tuˈʃɛ/

Interjection

[edit]

touché!

  1. touché

Spanish

[edit]

Pronunciation

[edit]
  • IPA(key): /tuˈʃe/ [t̪uˈʃe]
  • Rhymes: -e

Adjective

[edit]

touché m or f (masculine and feminine plural touchés)

  1. (fencing) touché

Further reading

[edit]
  • Manuel Seco; Olimpia Andrés; Gabino Ramos (3 August 2023), “touché”, in Diccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA [BBVA Foundation]

Tag » What Does Touche Mean In French