ratatouille
To control someone as though they were a puppetTo control someone as though they were a puppet.
» I would like a ratatouille, please.
Tatoeba contributors · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
1 sensesTo control someone as though they were a puppet.
Examples
5 sentencesI would like a ratatouille, please.
Where can they put the ratatouille?
Why did you spit out the ratatouille?
To make ratatouille, you need lots of vegetables, especially peppers.
The Berber language is a linguistic ratatouille that no one wants.
Origin
Unadapted borrowing from French ratatouille, from Occitan ratatolha (ratatouille is a dishUnadapted borrowing from French ratatouille, from Occitan ratatolha (ratatouille is a dish originally from Nice, and is also found in Provence), French form from diminutive prefix tat- + touiller (“to stir”), from Latin tudiculō (“grind, mix”), from tudes (“hammer”), from Proto-Indo-European *tud-, from *(s)tewd-.
Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Forms
ratatouilles, ratatouilling, ratatouilled, ratatouilled| Base form | ratatouille · to ratatouille |
|---|---|
| 3rd person singular | ratatouilles |
| Present participle | ratatouilling |
| Past simple | ratatouilled |
| Past participle | ratatouilled |
regular · Lesson
Lessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.