écœurant
🇨🇦 French slang from Québec
What does “écœurant” mean?
awesome (or disgusting)
Example
“Le show était écœurant !”
The show was awesome!
Good to know
Standard meaning 'disgusting'; in Québec slang often 'amazing'. Context tells.
Who you can say it to
With friends, not your boss
☕ Everyday🎉 Going out
The textbook way to say it: génial
Heard in a conversation
Weekend at the sugar shack
Gabrielle Moi aussi ! Faque on mange des crêpes pis de la tire tout l'après-midi ?
Me too! So we eat pancakes and taffy all afternoon?
Mathieu Exact. Pis on finit avec une soirée de danse, ça va être écœurant !
Exactly. And we finish with a dance party, it's going to be awesome!
Gabrielle C'est l'fun ! Bon, je jase avec toi plus tard, je dois aller magasiner des bottes.
That's great! OK, I'll chat with you later, I have to go shopping for boots.
🔥 How other countries say “awesome, amazing”
- 🇫🇷 c'est le feuFrance
- 🇧🇪 tofBelgium
- 🇨🇮 ça a gâtéWest Africa · About an event that was amazing: the party, the concert.
More from Québec
- c'est maladeit's awesome, sick
- charcar
- c'est plateit's boring; that sucks
- magasinerto go shopping
- tiguidougreat, all good
- pantoutenot at all
- icittehere
- niaiserto kid around, mess with
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