French: chat teigneEnglish translation: play on words with châtaigne (chestnut) 
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| GLOSSARY ENTRY (DERIVED FROM QUESTION BELOW) | | French term or phrase: | chat teigne | | English translation: | play on words with châtaigne (chestnut) | | Entered by: | Melissa McMahon |
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Livestock / Animal Husbandry / cat | | French term or phrase: chat teigne | I'm having trouble working out what this is - the meanings of 'teigne' (ringworm, moth...) don't seem to fit with 'cat' - perhaps a 'mangy' cat?
The context isn't very helpful: it's a joke in a set of illustrations of things you might preserve in jars - a row of jars with their labels: mushrooms, carrots etc, and then a cat in a jar with the label 'chat teigne'. The colouring of the cat suggests it's a ginger cat if anything...?
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| | Clarification request(s) and responseDavid Goward: 11:25am Mar 13, 2008: In response to your note to w/a: "chat teigne" doesn't mean anything. It's a play on words. Most of the Google hits are also just that (most refer to name of a bar). For your joke, you're going to have to come up with sth that begins/ends with "cat"
David Goward: 11:26am Mar 13, 2008: and that is generally stored in a jar. If you want help with this, you'd better say so (after the "vache" episode).
Melissa McMahon: 11:44am Mar 13, 2008: Thanks for the warning David - no help required with puns.
MoiraB: 12:51pm Mar 13, 2008: This is probably completely irrelevant (!), but the cat in Harry Potter (Mrs Norris) is Miss Teigne in French. Can't remember if it's a ginger cat! Perhaps another jokey allusion? Or perhaps the HP translator just had the same joke in mind.
Melissa McMahon: 12:57pm Mar 13, 2008: Ha - thanks Moira, you never know when these bits of info might come in handy. The writer of the cookbook is certainly full of beans... (eek).
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| play on words with châtaigne (chestnut) ??
Explanation:
is my initial impression....
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Note added at 17 mins (2008-03-13 11:25:13 GMT)
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http://www.picmystyle.com/2-01-1695-chat-teigne-couchee.html...
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Chat l'heure chat mot chat pelure Chat teigne chat eau ... Chat teigne , Chat peau , Chat moi , Chat thon , Chat mot , Chat sœur , Chat grain , Chat leur ...
www.ac-creteil.fr/ecpbertcoubron/po%E8tes.html -
je cherche un chef qui ferait avec moi un livre de menus ...
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et le chat teigne... mmmmm les marrons avec de la dinde pour noel :lol: [:zoey 16:3] et encore un chat. --------------- Kitty kitty kat ...
http://forums.france3.fr/france3/babs/cherche-ferait-vegetal...
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| Note from asker to answerer| Thanks writeaway, I'm satisfied this is correct so I'll close and get working on a suitable pun. |
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Asker: Yes, that's definitely possible, but 'chat teigne' does seem to be something by itself going on the google hits...
Asker: So this would be why the ghits didn't seem to converge on a common idea... thanks.
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