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potestatif: potestative
poteux: pothead; stoner; emotionally weak and weak-willed person, who does nothing but to smoke cannabis
potiche: porcelain vase; figurehead (person); window dressing; trophy wife
potier: potter, pottery
potier: potter
potier: of Villers-les-Pots
potimarron: red kuri squash (cultivar of species Cucurbita maxima)
potin: pewter
potin: gossip, tittle-tattle; item of gossip
potiner: to gossip
potion: potion
potiron: pumpkin; winter squash
potlatch: potlatch
poto: informal spelling of poteau (“dude, buddy”)
potomètre: potometer
potron-minet: sunrise
potée: potful; a dish of meat and vegetables (often cabbage) that have been boiled together, (In France, there are as many potées as there are regions.); hotpot (of various sorts); tin oxide powder used to polish metals
pou: louse; head louse (Pediculus humanus capitis)
pou-yaille: exclamation of surprise, pleasure or disgust
pouah: ugh!, yuck!
poub: clipping of poubelle
poubelle: rubbish bin, garbage can; trash, rubbish
poubellisme: The creation of artworks from trash or junk.
poucave: to betray, to snitch on
poucave: snitch, informer
pouce: thumb; inch
pouce: stop!, wait!
pouce bleu: like, thumbs up
pouce en l'air: A thumbs up
poucet: a very small person
pouchkinien: Pushkinian
poucre: important, impressive
pouding: post-1990 spelling of pudding
pouding chômeur: pudding chomeur
poudre: dust; powder
poudre Shimosa: Shimose powder; a picric acid based explosive
poudre aux yeux: smoke and mirrors, smokescreen
poudre de perlimpinpin: a powder, purported to have magic powers, formerly sold by charlatans; snake oil (a fraudulent cure-all or remedy)
poudre à canon: gunpowder
poudre à laver: washing powder
poudre à lessiver: washing powder
poudrer: to powder (cover in powder)
poudrerie: blowing snow
poudreuse: powder, powder snow
poudreux: powdery (covered in powder)
poudrier: powder compact; powder mill worker
poudrière: powder keg or magazine; tinderbox
poudroyer: to rise in clouds
pouet: the sound of a horn, as from a car, clown, etc.
pouet: ugly, disgusting
pouf: poof (onomatopoeia)
pouf: pouffe (thick cushion); a girl of bad conduct
pouffer: to burst out (with laughter); to crack up
pouffiasse: slag, floozy, whore
pougnasson: incompetent worker
pougne: cheating; cheating strategy
pougner: to cheat
pouillerie: squalor
pouilleux: person who has lice; lousy, miserable person; a bum
pouilleux: louse-infested; lousy, miserable