Unterseeboot 74

The Dunkirk is a dialect borrowing from the Flemish a certain number of words of its vocabulary. He speaks himself with a very marked accent, forced, even, in certain occasions, such as for example, the Carnaval of Dunkirk.

Here is a small lexicon - to note that the orthography is “phonetic”, the Dunkirk one not being, strictly speaking (!), a written language:

• HAS NOSTE KÉR : goodbye, with forthcoming once

• Batilleux : Boat

• BAT' CHE : 1. Shirt of sailor. 2. Costume of the carnavaleux one.
• BESTE CLET'CHE : more beautiful costume
• BET' CHE : small piece
• BEULTEKAZE : pie of head spiced
• BEUT : 1. Flat fish, crossed limanda and carelet. 2. Problem, - Y has a beut' which results in there is one something which does not go .3. Blunder (to make a beut)
• BEURT' CHE : to make a turn in the band of the fishermen - Hat.
• BERGUENAERE/BERGUENARD : umbrella - Inhabitant of Bergues - (by extension companion of band of carnavale)
• BIER BUC : belly with beer
• BONNEAMIE : been engaged
• BOREL : coffee of the citadel
• BOURELEULE : étymologiquement: slow peasant - by extension: nobody little educated Leule
• BRISQUER : Raler, ronchonner.
• SHINING BELGIAN : product to clean, make shine coppers
• BRIZELIN' CHE : crumbs, cracks
• BROUCK : pants ( As former Flemish the word " Broeck" also " meant; marais" as in " Hazebrouck" or " Hazebroeck" who could result in " Hare of the marais" and not " hare in the culotte" )
• BUC : belly (abbreviation of BUCKENAERE)
• BUCKENAERE : belly

• CADINTCHE : small wafer of paste of pudding fried with the frying pan

• SHACK : at home
• CAKEWALK : dance of the beginning of the century
• CALE-MADAME : maniérée middle-class woman
• EXECUTORY CHANNEL : channel discharge system of Dunkirk
• CANNT' I : crust (of bread) starts
• CASIN : nobody painful
• CAT' CHESPELE : to play small doctor
• CATELAM : tired
• CATROLE : A cat
• CATROLE BOOM : A cat tree
• CATROLE MEULTEKAZ : Pie for cat
• ROAD METAL of the GLACIS, the Low city or ST POL.: hooligan, rabble
• CHAILLELOQUE : défroque the gueux one, by extension: rabble
• VAULT : friendly house where a blow is drunk and is restored during the band
• CHASSE-NECHES : small group of disguised children put in front of the music (which directs the band) in order to draw aside the " touristes" looking at passing the band and which inevitably did not leave sufficient place for this one
• WITH the CLAQUEBEUSSES : allusion to the club of Claquebeusses (blowpipe with paper ball)
• CLETCHE : clothing, generally employed to designate the transvestite of carnival
• CLEUT' SE : shake (beaten as of the charts)
• CLICKS : music of the visschersbande (band of the sinners)
• CO-PINARD : former drum major and Dunkirk figure. With the carnival, the " Co" is charged to advance the music.
• CO-SCHLOCK II : Current drum major of the band of the sinners; he succeeded Co-plonk II.
• COPENESTE : nest of spiders, dust
• COPESPELE : cobweb
• COPPEVERBOLLE : upside down. étymologiquement: legs over the head
• CORINTHS : dry grapes
• COOT' CHE : young girl well " chaloupée" , the shape of boat with two chechmates
• COTJE : appenti - handing-over - boxroom
• COUQUE : Cake.
• COUQUEUSTUTT : bread cake, bread with dry grapes which one offered to the enfents with Christmas.
• SWISS COUQUE : Brioche with the grape and the cream pâtissière in the shape of spiral; it is also its name in Belgium. In Calaisis, one calls it snail , and a little everywhere in France, brioche with the grape or raisin bun. Attention, in Dunkirk, a raisin bun it is a couqueustutt and not couque Switzerland.
• CREULES : little curls
• CREULECÔ : small child buckled
• CREUT' CH : Kid, kid.
• CREUTCHELOURE : small child
• CREUTCHE-MANGEUR : An ogre.
• CREUTCHESCHOOL : the school
• CREUTCHE-SUPRAYSE : Kinder surprised
• CRIMINAL : Drunk, drunk
• CROMENOUCK : patient (corner twisted in Flemish)
• CROP : swell - " jai the crop " I have a ball in the throat
• CRUPER : To go to four legs, to climb
• CLECK : Slate in a bar
• DARRER : Râler, brisquer
• DECKENEUZE : false nose out of paperboard
• DEYORS : outside
• DIEUS MARIA TOCH : interjection corresponding about to Jesus Marie Joseph
• DOGUETTE : small cod
• DRIVER : vadrouiller, to trail, wander
• DUEL (one), a floorcloth (which comes from English: washing): a Floorcloth

• Esquinter : used something

• EUL : The
• TO MAKE a MOUTH From here BERGUES : REALLY! to make the head!
• LAZY (of): hard - crowned - impressive - " lazy of podingue"
• TO MAKE MAT' CHE : to flatter, type in the eye
• FEGURE : appear, face
• FIGUEMAN : nobody of the band of the fishermen holding a fig at the end of a wire
• FIRE : girl
• FLEPE : small piece of fabrics or wire coming from worn clothes
• FREIGHT : (to do one) to make a good deal
• AT FRICOTO : old restaurant
• ROCKET IN the FLYING BRIDGE : familiar . to vomit in the gutter

• GROOT : Large

• GUERNADE : Shrimp
• GUERNADIERE : Sinning of Shrimp

• KAKE : excrement

• KAKERNECH : The small last (child), in ch' Ti: Ch' tiot sold off
• KEINT' CHE : chin
• KENN' IDIOT : pants
• KOT' CHE : small part, handing-over, boxroom, hut
• KLAKEU-BUSS : An eunuch flute (to throw projectiles with the head of good people), it is also the musical instrument: under bassophone (Hélicon).
• KLIPPERS : whole red herring.
• KLOPPE : crippled, wounded
• KLOPPE OF the FEET : who trails feet
• KLOKESPEL : chime
• KLOTTEBREK : breakage-testicles
• KOPTJERAZE : the ball with zero
• KRAMPEUT' : record player, sound system, noisy object. - 2. trade
• KURSAAL : casino

• LAPEUTEUTE : nobody slow

• LÉCHEUPROUT : a suspet
• LEUGHENAER (turn of): Liar. It is also the name of the old headlight built with the XV° century which is in the port of the center of Dunkirk (close to Minck)
• LEULER : to trail, rêvasser - Eh, gâmin, edge of leuler like that, and come quickly to the house, has podingue there!
• LEUT'CHE : pleasure
• LINKREBINK : difficult child with food
• LOQUUE : dress
• LOUPTJE : (to do one) to outline a pout

• MASQUELOURS : carnavaleux

• MEIJE : large mother
• MEUCHCK : sparrow
• GRINDING STONE OF COUCKE : (to fall in) to crumble
• MINCHPLACK : (it) the discharge
• MINCK : (it) shouted with the fish
• MINCKER : to take part in shouted the
• MIREUPICHE : very small
• MOUCHEBARD : nobody not very intelligent
• TO GRIND : mother, mom
• MULE : face - muzzle
• MULEBAT' CHE : hide collar, hood, mask

• NART'CHE PETCHE : anus

• NECHE (or neuche): to go to the neche: to go in closed house
• NECHEPROUT' : remained
• NOUCKT' CHE' : little place

• PALEULE' : (one) stick

• PECK : dryness (haren peck) WICHE PECK: name of the cemetery of Rosendael
• PEIJE : large father
• PENELECRE : Employee
• PEPREZOUTE : pepper and salt
• PET' CHE : play of ball
• PEQUEUX : Sinner (Péqueux who goes àl péque)
• PETEBOONTJE : bean
• PEULEMEUCHE : bonnet
• PEUTE : Force, energy. Ben alôr', gâmiin, ket' your gift? Pête a blow, be very pale for you! Could you of peute, gift? that one could translate by: thus Say, the friend, you have a concern? seemed to me well badly in point. Would you be tired?
• PICHELEULE : Dawdler, somebody who leule . - 2. épicière of the street of the Ramparts
• PICHELOURE : Male sex, is also said to designate somebody (equivalent of " biloute" in ch' Ti).
• PITCHE : Short period which exceeds

• PINTE' : volume of a half liter (one pint of beer/one pint of shrimp)
• PITCHEPLOÏE : who does not enter any more in erection.
• PLAT'CHE : Flat fish. Usually, a beut' or a sail needle.
• PODINGUE : Pudding
• PECKEUL BEUT : One sins with the tuna
• PETEU-BOONTJE : bean (literally " bean with péter")
• HOLY BRIDGE GEORGES : bridge of Coudekerque-Connects
• POPECHOLEE : Streetwalker
• POTCHEROLLE : Drunk, drunk
• POTEKARIES: kitchen utensils
• POTEVORDEKE' ! : interjection of great astonishment
• POUNCRE : amount of money - economies, by extension purse, carries currency, bag-with-hand
• POTCH' VLACK : Potch' Polish vleshe with the chips précuites in the fat
• POTCH' VLESHE : Rabbit, chicken (hen), calf in vinaigrée frost, flat traditional of Dunkirk.
• PREUTE : Female sex

• RALEUZHEM : A grumpy old man

• REUZE-PAPA : giant of Dunkirk
• RIPT' CHE-RAPT' CHE : débrouillardes people of modest means living little of things
• RICKEFRACK : A living room of for rich person
• RICKEUL' SFLAM : A lighter
• DIRERE: An impressive person
• ROLLEWAERE' : caster for young children learning how to go
• TO ROLL OF ITS BODY : to fall
• ROUN' QUER : maugréer, marmonner
• ROSENDAEL : Dunkirk district
• the STREET OF Me TITES SKIRTS : old street considered for its closed houses

• HOLY POL. : a saint-pol. is a knife, which could formerly be with notch of stop, used at the time of the brawls of sporting reputation in this city

• SAQUENT IN : there to go from good heart
• SCHNICKER : to drink abundantly
• SLEUTRE (large): individual dégingandé
• SMEULE : 1. Good meal, feast. 2. Crumbs; to fall in smeule , to make smeules .
• SNOTTECARE : snot
• SNOUPREMULE : indicate irégularitées of the skins of the face which occur when the liver is charged too much by sugar and alcohol
• SNUSTRERAER : (one) nobody curious, nosy
• SPRAT : small fish " Ben kid! be thick for you like a sprat" : be to you skinny fellow!
• SPRIP' TCHE PAP : Thick pulp.
• STECKEBEILLE : gooseberry
• STREET ST GILLES : old popular street of Dunkirk
• STOK' CHE : Stick, handle of umbrella.
• SUCREU-BOONTJE : French bean

• ZELT'CHE : base of statue - threshold (of house)

• ZEUTE FROCK : pants which feel Zootboum
• ZOOTBOUM : Stick of liquorice salted to cheese of Bergues
• AT ZIZINE : old coffee/bar of high reputation to the Citadel of Dunkirk
• ZOT/ZOT' CHE : To kiss, kiss. - Give a zot' che , with your uncle co', who r' comes from Iceland; of sound wamme , you will have a piece, if it is quite tender. : song of the Carnival of Dunkirk.
• ZOTTE : (one) nobody fofolle.
• ZUINEU-PUSS : Orgelet, accomplice-oriole
• ZWATELAERES : company carnavalesques of Dunkirk of Lille which organized a very appreciated ball of the Dunkirk
• ZWECKT' CHE : male sex. syn.: pichelour, wiche.
• ZWEKT'CHE : pole of figueman
• ZWINE SNACK : Ham sandwich
• ZWINE COUKE : Flash with the ham