Where does “bouletteux” come from?

bouletteux (French) comes from French boulette, from French boule, from Middle French boule, from Old French bole, from Latin bulla, from Proto-Indo-European bʰel-, from Proto-Indo-European bʰōl-.

bouletteux (French): drug mule

Definitions

  1. drug mule

Ancestry of “bouletteux”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchboulettesmall ball; dumpling
2Frenchbouleball, globe; bowl; scoop
3Middle Frenchbouleball
4Old Frenchboleknob; fraud, deceit, trickery
5Latinbullaa bubble; a swollen or bubble-shaped object,...
6Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰel-to sound; to speak, roar, bark; shiny, white; to...
7Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰōl-
Every word from Proto-Indo-European bʰōl-Every word from Proto-Indo-European bʰel-Every word from Latin bulla