parlez-vous
Definitions
noun
Alternative form of parleyvoo.
At first we greeted them from sheer pity; but the parlez-vouses passed us like so many surly oxen.
The Parlez-vouses charged us a franc a trunk for the privilege of ransacking, and then we took the steamer to Honfleur, where a carriage met us, and brought us to this pretty spot, about which I’ll tell you anon.
verb
Alternative form of parleyvoo.
All this time he was speaking French, while my answers and remarks were in English. Suddenly recollecting himself, he said—“Well, here have I been parlez-vousing to you, in a way to surprise you, no doubt; but these Frenchmen have got my tongue so set to their lingo, that I have half forgotten my own language.”[…]“Here,” said he, “you are a friend of the lady, and parlez-vous so much better than I, can you tell me whether this is for jeudi, or lundi, or mardi, or whether it means no day at all.”
While my companions smoked a pipe and parlez-voused with one party, I parlezed and gesticulated with another.