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FWT: "un beauf"
martine_s Started conversation Jun 8, 2005
Literal meaning: brother-in-law (beau-frère) shortened in popular language to "beauf".
Current meaning; uncultured bigot, vulgar, sexist, unreconstructed MCP, vaguely wordlessly xenophobic. Not smart but not vindictive. A bit like Hyacinth Bucket's brother-in-law in fact.
This afternoon, F. came into the staff room to ask if anyone had a translation for "beauf" and we only had this long definition. So we came to the conclusion that the species was unkwown in Britain.
Also it seems to be a male thing. A small triumph in itself...
FWT: "un beauf"
Polly Tunnel Posted Jun 8, 2005
un beauf me gonfle 
I know that this probably has no meaning in the real world but to me it describes my B-i-L perfectly.
Polly 
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