Masculine

cancre

Meaning

  1. (masculine) blockhead, dunce, dolt
  2. (dated, masculine) crayfish
  3. (masculine, obsolete) pauper

Concepts

dunce
blockhead

dead-beat

lazy boy girl

dawdler
idler
layabout
lazybones
lounger
saunter
sluggard

slow-coach

bonehead
knucklehead
stupidity
tramp
loafer

loggerhead

bezonian

lunkhead
muttonhead
numskull
pauper
dumbass
shithead
slob
do-nothing
duffer
crab
🦀
dunderhead
fuckhead
hammerhead
idiot
Synonyms

cossard

indolent
paresseux
C1
flémard
flemmard
33k
flemme
40k
fainéant
C2
musard

rossard

imbécile
B1
cagnard

bonehead

bûche
C2
crabe
C1
🦀
idiot
A2
stupide
A2
bœuf
C1
🐂
enculé
B2
enfoiré
B1
nullard
47k
buche
Translations

testa di legno

vago
pigro

scolaro pigro

barbón
tonto
Faulpelz
Tagedieb
fannullone
poltrone
zuccone
infingardo
Dummkopf
Faulenzer
holgazán
Frequency

47k
Pronounced as (IPA)
/kɑ̃kʁ/
Etymology

Borrowed from Latin
Latin
cancer
In summary

Borrowed from Latin cancer. Doublet of chancre and cancer.

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