flouter

English

Etymology

From flout +‎ -er.

Noun

flouter (plural flouters)

1. A person who flouts.

French

Etymology

From flou +‎ -t- +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Verb

flouter

1. (neologism) to blur
   • 2011 January, Comité permanent de l’accès à l’information, de la protection des renseignements personnels et de l’éthique, “La protection de la vie privée dans le monde numérique : Étude des répercussions sur la vie privée des systèmes d’imagerie à l’échelle de la rue”, in 40e législature, 3e session‎, Chambre des Communes Canada, retrieved 19 August 2023, page 9:

     L’assemblage des données est conçu de manière à flouter consciemment les visages de toute personne pouvant être photographiée dans le cadre de cette démarche.

     The assembly of the data is designed to deliberately blur the faces of any individual who may be photographed in this process.^[1]

Conjugation

infinitive	simple	flouter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	floutant /flu.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		flouté /flu.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	floute /flut/	floutes /flut/	floute /flut/	floutons /flu.tɔ̃/	floutez /flu.te/	floutent /flut/
	imperfect	floutais /flu.tɛ/	floutais /flu.tɛ/	floutait /flu.tɛ/	floutions /flu.tjɔ̃/	floutiez /flu.tje/	floutaient /flu.tɛ/
	past historic2	floutai /flu.te/	floutas /flu.ta/	flouta /flu.ta/	floutâmes /flu.tam/	floutâtes /flu.tat/	floutèrent /flu.tɛʁ/
	future	flouterai /flu.tʁe/	flouteras /flu.tʁa/	floutera /flu.tʁa/	flouterons /flu.tʁɔ̃/	flouterez /flu.tʁe/	flouteront /flu.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	flouterais /flu.tʁɛ/	flouterais /flu.tʁɛ/	flouterait /flu.tʁɛ/	flouterions /flu.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	flouteriez /flu.tə.ʁje/	flouteraient /flu.tʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	floute /flut/	floutes /flut/	floute /flut/	floutions /flu.tjɔ̃/	floutiez /flu.tje/	floutent /flut/
	imperfect2	floutasse /flu.tas/	floutasses /flu.tas/	floutât /flu.ta/	floutassions /flu.ta.sjɔ̃/	floutassiez /flu.ta.sje/	floutassent /flu.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	floute /flut/	—	floutons /flu.tɔ̃/	floutez /flu.te/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Conjugation of flouter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

References

1. Standing committee on access to information, privacy and ethics (2011 January) “Mapping privacy protection in the digital world: Study of the privacy implications of street-level imaging applications”, in 40th parliament, 3rd session‎, House of Commons Canada, retrieved 19 August 2023, page 25

Middle English

Alternative forms

• floutere, floutour, flowtour, floyter, floytur, fleuiter, fflouter

Etymology

From Old French flauteur.

Noun

flouter (plural flouters)

1. A musician who plays a flute; a flutist.

Related terms

• floute
• flouten

Descendants

• English: fluter

References

• “floutē̆r, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-04.