andouille

Borrowed from French andouille, ultimately from Latin indūcō (“to lead in, to bring in”). Doublet of nduja.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɒ̃ˈduːj/, /ɒnˈduː.i/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ænˈdu.i/
• Rhymes: -uːi

andouille (countable and uncountable, plural andouilles)

1. A spiced, heavily smoked Cajun pork sausage, often made from the entire gastrointestinal system of the pig.

From Old French andoille, from early Medieval Latin inductilis, from Latin indūcō (“cover, overlay”).

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.duj/
• Rhymes: -uj

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andouille f (plural andouilles)

1. andouille
2. (slang) imbecile, numpty, fool

• andouillette

• → English: andouille
• → Esperanto: andujo
• → Japanese: アンドゥイユ (anduiyu)
• → Turkish: andaval, andavallı

• “andouille”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.