YCCMB Posted December 18, 2015 Share Posted December 18, 2015 I seem to have made up a word. Not that I have ever used it (to my knowledge), but having just read an article that France has passed legislation requiring models to provide medical certificates, and to require photos which have been photoshopped to make models look thinner to say so, I've realised that the word for "thinness" or "skinniness" is "maigreur" but my brain SO wants it to be "maigresse"Weirdly, my googling seems to suggest that "maigresse" exists, but the majority of links are either to Mahgrebin references or archaic texts. Is this a peculiarly North African word? I've spent so long there in the past that maybe my brain picked it up there. What confuse me more is that it's "la maigreur" which seems to make it a feminine word with what my brain thinks of as a masculine ending. I don't even know why I care, because unless I'm talking about someone else, I certainly won't be raising the topic of skinniness on my own account! ?"Minceur" doesn't confuse me at all, so I guess "maigreur" shouldn't, either.I'm putting it down to pre-Christmas brain fade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patf Posted December 18, 2015 Share Posted December 18, 2015 Maigreur reminds me of the english word meagre, which our dictionary says come from the old french maigre, and that from latin macer.But as you say, maigresse would make more sense.Maybe N. Africans are called Mahgrebin because they're skinny? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idun Posted December 18, 2015 Share Posted December 18, 2015 I cannot remember hearing that word before, have heard maigrichonne though.And I still think a female puppy dog should be called a chiotte!!!!![Www] I still remember the looks on people's faces when I used to say that[:-))] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YCCMB Posted December 18, 2015 Author Share Posted December 18, 2015 Pat, your comment about skinny Mahgrebins made me laugh!We recently returned from Morocco, and I commented at some point that Moroccan and Italian women seem to have a lot in common. Young ones all seem to be beautifully slim and elegant, but there's an age point at which they seem to shrink and expand! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idun Posted December 18, 2015 Share Posted December 18, 2015 LOL Betty, that sounds like me and I am certainly not italian or mahgreban!!!!Just lost 23kgs though!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YCCMB Posted December 18, 2015 Author Share Posted December 18, 2015 Wow, Idun, good for you! I've been thinking about "maigresse" and that I may have been confusing it with "grossesse".. Which I realise is not in the same vein at all....but I suppose it could be a fatness of a sort! ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idun Posted December 18, 2015 Share Posted December 18, 2015 Grossesse!!!!!In that first year I moved to France, I thought I was pregnant and went to see a gynny and had a blood test done. Got the results and it said grossesse on the report and so I looked the word up in what we considered a good dictionary...........and it said, to get bigger, but no mention of a baby.So until I could see the doctor again, I really did not know if I was pregnant or I had something wrong with me which would make me bigger...... because there are illnesses that do!!!Quite worrying at the time and not how we should have been greeting what was 'good' news, or as you put it, fatness of a sort[:-))][:-))][:-))] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mint Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 You mean allaitant doesn't mean come along, auntie? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chancer Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 Well done Idun, you must feel a lot healthier and younger. Dont worry if your face doesnt reflect that at the moment, many of us who have done what you have look like we are terminally ill for a while before the colour and texture comes back to the face Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idun Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 MINT!!!!! You are naughty!!!!!!:I am of an age when belly laughing without having an accident is nigh on impossible......... bad girl!!!![:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idun Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 Feel younger and fitter, not really, some clothes fit and some are now way too big.Husband did not even notice the first 2 stones,he noticed well into the third stone. I have to point out that I am not on a diet. I have dieted successfully over the years and then put the weight on in less weeks than I took it off because of deprivation. On the 1st of June I started eating everything I wanted, but only in small portions. So I have had everything I like, do not feel deprived and for all I am eating a little more now since I hit the 21kgs point, get full quickly and am respecting my stomach and over the last few weeks have been losing about 300grs a week. Doubt I will lose over christmas and the new year and that'll be fine.But I don't want to lose any more weight as my skin is feeling loser. Everyone is saying I am looking well, and I think I am. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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