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Where does “casse-couilles” come from?

casse-couilles (French) comes from French casser, from Old French quasser, from Latin quassō, from Latin -tō, from Latin -tus, from Proto-Italic -tus, from Proto-Indo-European -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.

casse-couilles (French): irritating; ball-buster; pain; pain in the arse

Definitions

  1. irritating; ball-buster; pain; pain in the arse

Ancestry of “casse-couilles”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchcasserto break; to break up
2Old Frenchquasserto break; to annul; to quash
3Latinquassō—
4Latin-tō—
5Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
6Proto-Italic-tus—
7Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots
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