bidet

Borrowed from French bidet.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbiːdeɪ/
  • Rhymes: -iːdeɪ
  • Homophone: b-day
• (US) IPA^(key): /bɪˈdeɪ/

  • Audio (US):

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  • Rhymes: -eɪ

bidet (plural bidets)

1. A low-mounted plumbing fixture or type of sink intended for washing the external genitalia and the anus.
2. (obsolete) A small horse formerly allowed to each trooper or dragoon for carrying his baggage.
   • 1631, Ben Jonson, Chloridia:

     For joy of which I will return to myself, mount my bidet in a dance

• betid, bited, debit

Borrowed from French bidet.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɪdɛt]
• Hyphenation: bi‧det

bidet m inan

1. bidet

• “bidet”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “bidet”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

From Middle French bider (“to trot”), of unknown ultimate origin, +‎ -et. Possibly related to Medieval Italian bidetto (“small horse”),^[1] itself probably related to Proto-West Germanic *biti (“bite; horse's bit”);^[2] or, possibly from a lost Middle French rabider (“go quickly, violently”), a descendant of Latin rabidus (“furious, fierce”), with loss of the initial prefix.^[3]

Modern sense derives from analogy with the straddling of a bidet and the straddling of a small horse.^[4]

• IPA^(key): /bi.dɛ/

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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bidet m (plural bidets)

1. pony, small horse
   • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […]‎^[3], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:

     Il mit sa main devant ses yeux; et il aperçut à l'horizon un enclos de murs où des arbres, çà et là, faisaient des bouquets noirs entre des pierres blanches, puis il continua sa route, au petit trot, car son bidet boitait.

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2. bidet

• → English: bidet (see there for further descendants)
• → Greek: μπιντές (bintés)
• → Polish: bidet
• → Portuguese: bidê, bidé (Portugal)
• → Persian: بیده (bide)
• → Turkish: bide

• “bidet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• débit

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

bidet m (plural bidets)

1. (Jersey) pony
2. (Jersey) bidet

• (pony): pônîn, p'tit j'va

Borrowed from French bidet. First attested in 1819.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈbi.dɛt/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -idɛt
• Syllabification: bi‧det

bidet m inan (diminutive bidecik)

1. bidet (low-mounted plumbing fixture for cleaning the genitalia and anus)

• “bidet”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[4] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “bidet”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[5] (in Polish)

Derived from French bidet.

• IPA^(key): /bidet/, [ˈbidet]
• Rhymes: -idet
• Hyphenation: bi‧det

bidet m inan (relational adjective bidetový)

1. bidet

• “bidet”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026

• IPA^(key): /biˈdet/ [biˈð̞et̪]
• Rhymes: -et
• Syllabification: bi‧det

bidet m (plural bidets)

1. alternative form of bidé

• Seco, Manuel; Andrés, Olimpia; Ramos, Gabino (2023), “bidet”, in Diccionario del español actual (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA
• bidet | Diccionario • DELE Ahora