bouler

Rare on its own (to tumble or roll over, like a ball) but essential as part of the very common idiom envoyer bouler quelqu'un — to brush someone off rudely, reject them bluntly.

• Il a roulé et boulé jusqu'en bas de la pente. — He tumbled and rolled all the way down the slope.
• Elle a envoyé bouler son collègue sans ménagement. — She brusquely brushed off her colleague.
• Ne l'envoie pas bouler, il essayait juste d'aider. — Don't brush him off, he was just trying to help.

The idiom envoyer bouler is far more common than the plain verb bouler on its own — a learner is much more likely to encounter it inside that fixed expression than as a standalone verb of tumbling.

• expression "Envoyer bouler quelqu'un" — A French idiom documented since at least 1828, of Norman dialect origin, meaning to rudely brush someone off or reject them — from bouler's literal sense of pushing someone so they tumble over.