Calvaire

What is Calvaire?


1.

In French Canadian slang, pretty much the equivalent of 'fuck' but with no sexual meaning - the word is used as a vulgar interjection. Literal translation: martyrdom.

Note: 'crisse', 'hestie', tabarnacand 'câlisse' have a very similar meanings and are equally vulgar. A locutor can stack them together as to create a rhetorical figure (see examples).

Calvaire! - shit!

Tu parles d'un calvaire - What a nightmare

Tasse toé calvaire - Move away

See crisse, sacrament, tabarnac, Père Noël


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