different between morocco vs chleuh

English

Etymology

From the country name of Morocco, from which this leather was originally imported. Compare maroquin.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: mo?roc?co

Noun

morocco (countable and uncountable, plural moroccos)

1. A soft leather, made from goatskin, used especially in bookbinding.
   • 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber 1992, p. 164:

     Piers put the letter in an envelope and slipped it into a green morocco-covered volume on the window seat – his sister's diary.

2. A sheepskin leather in imitation of this.
3. A very strong ale, anciently brewed in Cumberland.

Synonyms

• (soft leather): maroquin, morocco leather

Derived terms

• French morocco, Levant morocco, Persian morocco

French

Alternative forms

• schleu, schleuh (Germanized variant forms, used when the word means "German")

Etymology

From Moroccan Arabic ????? (šl??). Among the French military in Africa it came to mean "one who couldn't speak French" and was then applied to the Germans during the Second World War.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lø/

Noun

chleuh m (plural chleuhs, feminine chleuhe)

1. (uncountable) Tashelhit; one of the Berber languages
2. (countable, derogatory, ethnic slur) a German; a kraut [1940s]

   Synonym: boche

Adjective

chleuh (feminine singular chleuhe, masculine plural chleuhs, feminine plural chleuhes)

1. Shilha, Tashelhit
2. (derogatory) German

Further reading

• “chleuh” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).