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verb

roupiller

/ʁu.pi.je/

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verb/ʁu.pi.je/

to drowse, to doze; to (get some) sleep, to kip

Si lassé des voisins qui roupillent / Par la vitre baissée, tu te dessilles / En comptant les points d'or de la nuit / E Pericoloso Sporgersi

Probably from or related to German dialectal ruspen, ruspern (“to snore, groan, grumble, retch”). If so, then cognate with Low German ruspen, Middle Dutch ruyspen, German räuspern (“to clear the throat”).