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bouder

/bu.de/

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verb/bu.de/

to sulk, pout; to frown upon, to be discontented with

La tétine est, en effet, à risque pour l'allaitement. Certains bébés en sont tellement satisfaits qu'ils en boudent un peu le sein.Dummies are indeed risky during breastfeeding. Some babies are so satisfied with them that they go off the breast a little.

Inherited from Middle French bouder, from Old French bouder (“to sulk”, literally “to swell or protrude the lip”), from a root *bod- (“to swell”) (compare Walloon boder (“to swell”)), probably from Proto-Germanic *būd-, *beud-, *buzda-, *bus- (“to swell”), from Proto-Indo-European *beu-, *bu-, *bʰew- (“to blow, swell”). Cognate with Middle Low German buddich (“swollen”), Old Norse budda (“purse, bag”), Old Saxon būdil (“bag, purse”), Old High German būtil (“purse”) (German Beutel), English bud.