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petite vérole: smallpox
petite-fille: granddaughter (daughter of one's child)
petite-nièce: grandniece (daughter of a niece or nephew)
petitement: poorly; meanly; pettily
petites annonces: ellipsis of petites annonces classées: plural of petite annonce
petites gens: the little people (the lower class)
petites heures: small hours, wee small hours
petites lèvres: labia minora
petitesse: smallness, littleness; pettiness; petiteness
petitgrain: petitgrain
petitissime: very small, very little, or both
petits yeux: a tired look
peton: foot
peu: little; not very much/many
peu: few; little
peu importe: no matter, never mind, it doesn't matter
peu importe: no matter the, no matter what, regardless of
peu importer: to not matter, to matter little, to be unimportant
peu me chaut: it matters not; it doesn't matter; I don't care; little matter
peu ou prou: more or less
peu à peu: bit by bit, little by little, gradually, by degrees
peuchère: Used to express compassion, surprise or pity.
peucédanin: peucedanin
peuh: pshaw, pff
peul: of Fula
peul: Fula (language)
peulven: peulven; menhir
peuplade: tribe, people; group of settlers/colonists
peuple: people (nation, distinct ethnic group); the people, the general population, the common folk
peuple élu: Chosen People
peuplement: populating (act of increasing a population, or of a population increasing)
peupler: to populate
peupleraie: poplar grove
peupleraye: obsolete spelling of peupleraie
peuplier: poplar
peuplé: populated; inhabited
peur: fear
peur bleue: terror, strong fear
peur du vide: acrophobia, fear of heights; vertigo
peur panique: terror, strong fear
peureusement: fearfully
peureux: fearful; anxious, nervous, neurotic; fearful, afraid; fearful, frightenable
peut: obsolete spelling of put: third-person singular past historic of pouvoir
peut être: misspelling of peut-être; Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see peut, être ("may be; can be")
peut-être: maybe, perhaps
pfennig: pfennig
pff: pff
pfff: alternative spelling of pff
pfiou: phew; Onomatopoeia emphasizing an endurance.
pfut: Expressing disinterest
phacochère: warthog
phacomètre: phacometer
phage: synonym of bactériophage
phagnalon: phagnalon
phagocytage: phagocytosis; swallowing up
phagocytaire: phagocytic
phagocyter: to phagocytize; to swallow up
phagocytose: phagocytosis
phagotrophie: phagotrophy
phagotrophique: phagotrophic