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Glossary entry

French term or phrase:

chat teigne

English translation:

play on words with châtaigne (chestnut)

Added to glossary by Melissa McMahon
Mar 13, 2008 11:07
16 yrs ago
French term

chat teigne

French to English Other Livestock / Animal Husbandry cat
I'm having trouble working out what this is - the meanings of 'teigne' (ringworm, moth...) don't seem to fit with 'cat' - perhaps a 'mangy' cat?

The context isn't very helpful: it's a joke in a set of illustrations of things you might preserve in jars - a row of jars with their labels: mushrooms, carrots etc, and then a cat in a jar with the label 'chat teigne'. The colouring of the cat suggests it's a ginger cat if anything...?

Thanks in advance.
Proposed translations (English)
3 +5 play on words with châtaigne (chestnut) ??

Discussion

Melissa McMahon (asker) Mar 13, 2008:
Ha - thanks Moira, you never know when these bits of info might come in handy. The writer of the cookbook is certainly full of beans... (eek).
MoiraB Mar 13, 2008:
This is probably completely irrelevant (!), but the cat in Harry Potter (Mrs Norris) is Miss Teigne in French. Can't remember if it's a ginger cat! Perhaps another jokey allusion? Or perhaps the HP translator just had the same joke in mind.
Melissa McMahon (asker) Mar 13, 2008:
Thanks for the warning David - no help required with puns.
David Goward Mar 13, 2008:
and that is generally stored in a jar. If you want help with this, you'd better say so (after the "vache" episode).
David Goward Mar 13, 2008:
In response to your note to w/a: "chat teigne" doesn't mean anything. It's a play on words. Most of the Google hits are also just that (most refer to name of a bar). For your joke, you're going to have to come up with sth that begins/ends with "cat"

Proposed translations

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play on words with châtaigne (chestnut) ??

is my initial impression....


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Note added at 17 mins (2008-03-13 11:25:13 GMT)
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http://www.picmystyle.com/2-01-1695-chat-teigne-couchee.html...

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Chat l'heure chat mot chat pelure Chat teigne chat eau ... Chat teigne , Chat peau , Chat moi , Chat thon , Chat mot , Chat sœur , Chat grain , Chat leur ...
www.ac-creteil.fr/ecpbertcoubron/po�tes.html -

je cherche un chef qui ferait avec moi un livre de menus ...
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et le chat teigne... mmmmm les marrons avec de la dinde pour noel :lol: [:zoey 16:3] et encore un chat. --------------- Kitty kitty kat ...
http://forums.france3.fr/france3/babs/cherche-ferait-vegetal...

Note from asker:
Yes, that's definitely possible, but 'chat teigne' does seem to be something by itself going on the google hits...
So this would be why the ghits didn't seem to converge on a common idea... thanks.
Peer comment(s):
agree Anton Konashenok
0 min
agree Jack Dunwell
5 mins
agree David Goward : Definitely.
10 mins
agree Victoria Porter-Burns :
46 mins
agree suezen : well done :-)
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thanks writeaway, I'm satisfied this is correct so I'll close and get working on a suitable pun."
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