French Dictionary

French-English translation of vache

Did you mean one of the following: fâché, fâcher, vacher?

(a) cow; (leather) cowhide; ~ laitière dairy cow; (Infml: gullible person) ~ à lait mug; la maladie de la ~ folle mad cow disease; en ~ on the sly; parler français comme une ~ espagnole to massacre the French language;

~ sacrée sacred cow

(b) (Slang: used to refer to police) les ~s the filth, the pigs

(c) (Slang: of a woman, sometimes by gays to refer to men) bitch, cow, (of men otherwise) sod, bastard

(d) (Slang: said in surprise, amazement) "la ~!" "bloody hell!", "fucking hell!" (Vulg), "well I'll be blowed!" (Infml, old-fashioned), "(well) bugger me!" (quite Vulg); (Slang) une vache de X one hell of a X, one motherfucker of a X (Vulg)

2 vache Adjective

(a) (Slang) shitty (quite Vulg), mean (neutral); être ~ to be a swine

Terms from the DGT glossary

French term	English term
Prime à la vache allaitante	Suckler cow premium
Plafond individuel pour la vache allaitante	Individual ceiling for suckler cow
Lait de vache	Cows' milk
Lait cru de vache	Raw cow's milk
même norme que pour le lait cru de vache	as for raw cow's milk
Lait de vache	Bovine milk

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French-English translation of vache

Terms from the DGT glossary