bêtise

Unadapted borrowing from French bêtise.

• IPA^(key): /beɪˈtiːz/, /bɛˈtiːz/

bêtise (countable and uncountable, plural bêtises)

1. silliness, folly, stupidity
   • 1840, M. A. Titmarsh [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], The Paris Sketch Book, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Macrone, […], →OCLC:

     […] Flicflac will trill you off fifty in ten minutes, and wonder at the bêtise of the Briton, who has never a word to say.

• bestie, beties, bitees

From bête +‎ -ise.

• IPA^(key): /bɛ.tiz/ ~ /be.tiz/

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bêtise f (plural bêtises)

1. (uncountable) foolishness
2. (countable) hooey
3. (uncountable) nonsense

• → English: bêtise
• → German: Betise

• connerie

• “bêtise”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.