boudin

blood sausage, black pudding; tube, ring; fatty, lardarse; ugly person (not necessarily obese)

“Bof ! c'est peut-être ma tante, mais c'est un gros boudin quand même.” — Humph! She may be my aunt, but she's still a fatso.

Inherited from Middle French boudin, from Old French boudin, of uncertain origin. Possibly from a root *bod- (“swollen”), possibly from Germanic, from Proto-Indo-European *bed- (“to swell”) (Pok. 96), from *bʰew- (“to swell”) (Pok. 98-102). This would suggest a connection with Proto-Germanic *paddǭ (“toad”). The derivation from Vulgar *botellinus, from botellus (“small sausage”), the diminutive form of botulus (“sausage, black pudding; intestine”) is disputed on phonological grounds; as the outc