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pousseur: pusher, someone who pushes; push tug; booster; stall handler
pousseur de bois: woodpusher (a poor chess player)
poussier: coal dust
poussif: wheezy, short-winded; broken-winded; listless, torpid, apathetic, sluggish
poussin: chick (a young chicken); sweetheart, darling (used to address a young boy, or to address a man one is in a romantic relationship with)
poussinet: a young child; a kid; a child in the youngest age group for a sport
poussivement: wheezily
poussière: dust; speck of dust; very little; next to nothing
poussières: plural of poussière; very little; next to nothing
poussiéreux: dusty; fusty, old-fashioned
poussoir: push-button; tappet; snow shovel; stuffer (sausage maker)
poussé: up bow
poussée: push, thrust; surge
poussée d'Archimède: buoyancy
poussée de croissance: growth spurt
pousterle: A steep and narrow stairway in the medieval town
pouteille: a dish of pig's trotters and other ingredients cooked in red wine
poutine: poutine; any of several potato-based dishes; dumpling; bread pudding, pudding; any of several pudding-like desserts
poutine déjeuner: breakfast poutine
poutine italienne: Italian poutine
poutine pizza: pizza poutine (a poutine with added mushrooms, bell peppers, pepperoni, and occasionally onions)
poutinerie: a poutinerie
poutinien: Putinist
poutinien: Putinist
poutinisme: Putinism
poutiniste: Putinist
poutiniste: Putinist
poutou: kiss
poutrage: beams, joisting
poutrap: tight-fitting, skin-tight
poutre: beam, girder; balance beam
poutre apparente: exposed beam; tight-fitting trousers (chiefly used attributively)
poutrelle: beam, girder
poutrer: to fuck, screw
poutzer: to clean
pouvoir: power; authority; power of attorney
pouvoir: can, to be able to; may (of a choice); to be possible; may, could be; to have the right (to); to have the power, the authority or the talent (to do something)
pouvoir d'achat: purchasing power (amount of goods and services that can be bought with a unit of currency); spending power (amount of goods and services that can be bought by consumers)
pouvoir de marché: market power
pouvoir de résolution: resolving power (a quantitative measure of the ability of an optical instrument to produce separable images)
pouvoir toujours courir: can whistle for it
pouzzolane: pozzolana
pouët: toot; parp
pov': informal spelling of pauvre
powoir: alternative spelling of pouvoir, to be able
powoir: alternative spelling of pouvoir, power
poème: poem (literary piece written in verse)
poète: poet; daydreamer; wordsmith
poésie: poetry (literature composed in verse); poetry
poétereau: mediocre poet
poéticité: poeticity
poétique: poetic, poetical
poétiquement: poetically (in a poetic way)
poétiser: to versify; to poetize or poeticize
poêle: stove
poêle: pall
poêle: pan; metal detector
poêle à bois: wood-burning stove, woodstove, wood burner, log-burner (heater or stove that burns wood for fuel)
poêle à frire: frying pan
poêler: to fry in a frying pan