English Explanatory Dictionary

mouchard

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An undercover investigator; a police spy, especially in a French-speaking country.
  2. An inverted compass hanging above the captain's bed
name
  1. A commune in Jura department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France.

Pronunciation

/ˈmuːʃɑː/ /muˈʃɑɹd/

Word forms

mouchard mouchards

Etymology

Borrowed from French mouchard, from mouche (“a fly”).

Derived words

mouchardism
This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on M Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary