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facétieux: a facetious person
fada: crazy
fada: nutcase
fadaise: uninteresting or banal thought; twaddle
fadasse: wishy-washy (wavering or lacking in commitment, certainty, or support)
fade: tasteless, insipid; boring; lukewarm
fade: share of loot / booty
fade: fairy.
fadement: insipidly, blandly
fader: to get stuck with
fadette: fairy
fadette: a detailed list of phone calls made and received, together with associated GPS information
fadeur: blandness, dullness, insipidness
faena: faena
faf: fash
fafiot: banknote; cheat sheet; any written paper
fafouin: Someone who has their head in the clouds; a scatterbrain.
fagacée: beech (any member of Fagaceae)
fagne: marshland; fen
fagot: fagot (bundle of sticks)
fagoter: to bundle; to dress up (wear special clothes)
fagoté: bundled; togged up (badly or carelessly dressed)
fagoue: sweetbread (pancreas of an animal)
faiblard: feeble, weak
faiblard: weakling
faible: weak; low, small (amount, degree, percentage)
faible: weakness, soft spot (for someone/something); weakling, weak person
faible d'esprit: feeble-minded, dim-witted
faiblement: weakly; slightly; mildly (not sharply); dimly (not brightly)
faiblesse: weakness
faiblir: to weaken, to get weaker
faiblissant: weakening
faiblisses: second-person singular present/imperfect subjunctive of faiblir
faict: obsolete spelling of fait
faille: fault; flaw; rift (chasm or fissure)
faille: faille (fabric woven from silk)
failli: bankrupt; insolvent.
failli: bankrupt; insolvent.
faillibilisme: fallibilism
faillibilité: fallibility
faillible: fallible
failliblement: fallibly
faillir: to almost do something; to fail
faillir: to go bankrupt
faillisses: second-person singular present/imperfect subjunctive of faillir
faillite: bankruptcy; failure
faim: hunger (desire of food); hunger (strong desire)
faim de loup: ravenous hunger
faine: post-1990 spelling of faîne
fainéant: a lazybones; one who makes little or no effort
fainéant: lazy; nonchalant; apathetic
fainéanter: to do nothing; to be idle; to faff
fainéantise: idleness
fair-play: fair play
faire: to do; to make; to say (of a person), to go (of an animal or device); to make (cause someone or something to do something); to act like (something)
faire abstraction: to forget; to ignore, to set aside, to disregard, to not take into account (for simplification purposes)
faire acte de présence: to put in an appearance
faire aller: to pull someone's leg, to fool, usually as a joke
faire allusion: to allude
faire amende honorable: to make amends, to mend one's ways, to eat crow