clochard

Borrowed from French clochard.

clochard (plural clochards)

1. A beggar or tramp, especially in France.
   • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 492:

     He nearly fell over the Pont Neuf, enjoyed the conversation and esteem of several hairy clochards, and was finally knocked down by a taxi in the Place Vendôme […]

   • 2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate 2011, p. 92:

     ‘Those clochards in Cannes, mostly old soixante-huitards. They see a tribute to modern industrial genius and can't resist giving it a swift kick.’

Borrowed from French clochard.

• IPA^(key): /klɔˈʃaːr/

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• Hyphenation: clo‧chard

clochard m (plural clochards, diminutive clochardje n)

1. vagrant

Disputed. One possible etymology is clocher (“to limp”) +‎ -ard, another one is from cloche (“clumsy person, oaf”)

• IPA^(key): /klɔ.ʃaʁ/

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clochard m (plural clochards, feminine clocharde)

1. (now usually derogatory) tramp; vagrant
   • 1993, Patrick Gaboriau, Clochard. L'univers d'un groupe de sans-abri parisiens.

     La vie quotidienne des clochards est mal connue.

     The everyday life of vagrants is poorly known.

   Synonym: clodo

• → Dutch: clochard
• → English: clochard
• → Italian: clochard
• → Slovene: klošar
• → Serbo-Croatian: klošar
• → Polish: kloszard
• → Macedonian: клошар (klošar)
• → Russian: клошар (klošar)

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

Unadapted borrowing from French clochard.

clochard m or f by sense (invariable)

1. (now non derogatory) tramp, vagrant, homeless

   (now derogatory) Synonym: barbone

• clochard in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana