mouche

Meaning

Noun

1. fly (insect)
2. bullseye (center of a target)
3. (espionage) a spy employed by the ancien régime to seek out subversive ideas
4. bee
5. soul patch, mouche (narrow beard descending from lower lip)

Verb

1. inflection of moucher:
2. inflection of moucher:

Pronounced as (IPA)

/muʃ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French mousche, from Old French mousche, musche, from Latin musca, from a Proto-Indo-European root *mus-, *mu-, *mew-.

Sentences

La mouche , pour rappeler le vieux mot déjà cité , n'avale pas un éléphant .

The fly, to recall the old word already mentioned, does not swallow an elephant.