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perçant: piercing, shrill; sharp (vision, etc.)
pesage: weighing; weighing in (of a jockey before/after a race)
pesamment: heavily
pesant: heavy
pesant: nightmare, delirium; only used in valoir son pesant d'or
pesanteur: gravity; weight; heaviness; slowness, dullness
peser: to weigh (to have a weight of); to weigh (to see how much something weighs); to burden, weigh down
peser dans la balance: to enter the equation, to carry weight
peser le pour et le contre: to weigh up the pros and cons
peser ses mots: to weigh one's words
peser un âne mort: to weigh a ton (to be very heavy)
peser une tonne: to weigh a ton (to be very heavy)
peseta: peseta
peshmerga: peshmerga
peso: peso
pessaire: pessary (medical device most commonly used to support a displaced uterus); pessary (contraceptive)
pesse: synonym of épicéa (“spruce”)
pessimisme: pessimism (general belief that bad things will happen)
pessimiste: pessimist
pessimiste: pessimistic
pessière: spruce wood or forest
peste: plague (disease); brat; pest
peste: wow, oh my God, holy shit (an exclamation denoting surprise or astonishment)
peste bubonique: bubonic plague
peste noire: Black Death
peste porcine: swine fever
pester: to rant, curse, fulminate
pesteux: plague
pesticide: pesticide
pestiféré: pestiferous
pestiféré: plague victim
pestilence: pest epidemic; pestilence; extremely foul smell
pestilentiel: highly injurious or destructive to life; pestilent; producing, spreading, promoting or infected with pestilence; causing infection; pestilent; putrid, rotten, foul
pet: fart
pet: clipping of pétard
pet de nonne: alternative spelling of pet-de-nonne
pet foireux: shart
pet vaginal: queef, fanny fart
pet-de-nonne: nun's puff (a small choux pastry eaten during carnival season in France (especially Alsace) and Belgium)
petiot: tiny, teeny, baby, baby-size
petiot: little one
petit: small; little; petty
petit: small one (anything that is small); little one (anything that is little); little one; child (of humans or other animals); the young (of a species)
petit ami: boyfriend (boy/man to whom one has a romantic attachment)
petit axe: minor axis (shortest diameter of an ellipse, which bisects the major axis at a right angle)
petit blanc: a poor white person who does not own a plantation
petit bleu: synonym of pinard (“plonk”) (cheap wine); synonym of télégramme (“telegram”)
petit bois: kindling (wood used to light fire)
petit boulot: odd job (temporary employment)
petit bras: unambitious person
petit coin: loo (toilet)
petit comité: small group
petit copain: boyfriend
petit cul: little boy; little prick
petit doigt: little finger (outermost and smallest finger of the hand), auricular
petit déjeuner: breakfast (morning meal); a small or light breakfast
petit filet: side-netting
petit four: petit four
petit garçon: little boy
petit joueur: bit player (person who does not take risks and refuse to raise the stakes)