/bʁə.duj/
empty-handed
“je suis bredouille, rentrer bredouille” — I am broke, to leave empty-handed.
Obscure. For semantic reasons, it is unlikely to be a deverbal of bredouiller. The adjective derives from the noun and is linked by some etymologists to Germanic roots: it could be, like brelan, linked to German Brett. Historically, bredouille was also called toutes-tables.
a token used to mark points in a game of trictrac
“Je marque six points et tu perds ta bredouille : bon coup pour moi !”
Obscure. For semantic reasons, it is unlikely to be a deverbal of bredouiller. The adjective derives from the noun and is linked by some etymologists to Germanic roots: it could be, like brelan, linked to German Brett. Historically, bredouille was also called toutes-tables.