cocasse
See also: coçasse
French
editEtymology
editFrom coquard.
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editcocasse (plural cocasses)
- amusing; funny; comical
- Synonym: grotesque
- 2019 January 29, “"Les Estivants", "The Place"... Les films à voir (ou pas) cette semaine”, in L'Obs[1]:
- […] lui annonce, dans un café, qu’il la quitte. Elle s’effondre. Ce devrait être triste, et c’est aussi cocasse qu’une scène de rupture chez Woody Allen.
- […] announces to her, in a café, that he's leaving her. She collapses. It should be sad, and it's as funny as a break-up scene in a Woody Allen film.
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “cocasse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.