verb/e.kɔʁ.ʃe/
to skin (to remove the skin off); to graze (one's body); to mispronounce, butcher
“Lors de son voyage, il s'était lié d'amitié avec un jeune voyou (ma mère disait : un pique-pochette, elle écorchait sans arrêt les mots) […]” — During his journey, he had befriended a young hooligan (or, as my mother said, a pique-pochette [a mispronunciation of pickpocket]; she was constantly mispronouncing words) […]
Synonyms: rudoyer
Inherited from Old French escorchier, inherited from Late Latin excorticāre, from cortex. Compare the borrowing décortiquer and Catalan escorxar. Distantly related to écorcer.