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câlisse

/kaː.lis/

interjection/kaː.lis/

expletive intensifier, usually said in astonishment or anger: fuck!

Synonyms: ciboire, crisse, tabarnak

Quebec eye-dialect spelling of calice (“chalice”). As with other sacres, the semantic shift occurred due to the surrounding taboos on blasphemy in predominantly Catholic Quebec.