Französisch: gros nonoEnglisch translation: dummy/idiot/shmuck 
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Art/Literary - Slang / quebecois | | Französisch Begriff oder Satz: gros nono | I think this is like "big loser", but I'd like someone familiar with the subtleties of quebecois slang to confirm.
It's from a short story about a literary critic who gets off on writing scathing reviews.
Je fais profession de tuer. Les gros egos. Les gros nonos. Les imbeciles heureux, les sans-genie de la vie. |
| | | real dummy | Erklärung:
Dictionnaire du joual:
Nono, nounoune : imbécile, drôle, niais
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joual
nono (m,f) imbécile nut, idiot
www.geocities.com/philipsfo/hostie/glossaire/n.html
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Note added at 3 hrs (2007-06-19 16:15:00 GMT)
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May be used as a noun or adjective:
"C'est nono." = "It's dumb."
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Note added at 3 hrs (2007-06-19 16:20:25 GMT)
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Lexique de termes québecois: Nono=Niais (=dumb, dopey)
http://canadaimage.free.fr/lexiquequebecois.htm
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Note added at 3 hrs (2007-06-19 16:25:15 GMT)
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Québèquouaiseries:
nono adj. m. – Bête, niais, sot, imbécile, idiot. C'est nono ce que tu fais.
nono n. m. – Niais, sot, imbécile, idiot. Lui, c'est un nono.
http://www.quebequouaiseries.com/langue/vocabulaire/lexique....
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 Robert Frankling
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| big idiot
Erklärung:
I think this means big idiots. I think "nono" might come from "nonours" a childish term for teddy bear. So something along the lines of a big daftie, a big idiot. But if you want further confirmation, I would actually be tempted to repost this in the reverse language combination to get native French speakers to tell you where it comes from - unusually, it is not in the Petit Robert.
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