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trouille

/tʁuj/

noun, feminine/tʁuj/plural: trouilles

trouille is feminine in French.

fear

Related: trouillard, trouillomètre

From Old French troillier (“to grind”, from truil, troil (“grape press”)) or Dutch drol (“to go to stool”, “dejection”).

noun, feminineplural: trouilles

trouille is feminine in French.

a fat or dirty woman, a shameless woman

Probably from trouille (“fear”), possibly under influence of truie.