English

Alternative forms

• Gascoigne [14th-19th c.]
• Gascoine [16th-17th c.]

Noun

Gascon ‎(plural Gascons)

1. A native or inhabitant of Gascony, a region of southwest France. [from 14th c.]
   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.8:

     I am a Gascoine, and there is no vice wherein I have lesse skill: I hate it somewhat more by complexion, than I accuse it by discourse.

   • 1948, ‘The New Pictures’, Time, 1 Nov.:

     Gene Kelly plays D'Artagnan as an irrepressible, tongue-in-cheek Gascon who is knee-deep in gory swordplay.

2. (obsolete) A braggart; a bully.

Translations

Adjective

Gascon ‎(not comparable)

1. Of or relating to Gascony.
2. (obsolete) braggart; swaggering

Translations

Proper noun

Gascon

1. The dialect of the Occitan language spoken in Gascony.

Anagrams

• congas

French

Etymology

From Middle French gascon, from Old French, from Latin plural Vascōnēs.

Noun

Gascon m ‎(plural Gascons, feminine Gasconne)

1. Gascon person

Related terms

• Gascogne

Anagrams

• cognas, congas

French

Adjective

gascon m ‎(feminine singular gasconne, masculine plural gascons, feminine plural gasconnes)

1. Gascon

Noun

gascon m ‎(uncountable)

1. Gascon

Coordinate terms

• niçois
• provençal
• languedocien
• limousin
• auvergnat

Anagrams

• cognas, congas

Occitan

Noun

gascon m (plural gascons, feminine gascona, feminine plural gasconas)

1. (uncountable) Gascon dialect
2. (countable) Gascon (person)

Adjective

gascon m (feminine singular gascona, masculine plural gascons, feminine plural gasconas)

1. Gascon (all meanings)

Old French

Adjective

gascon m ‎(oblique and nominative feminine singular gascone)

1. Gascon (all meanings)

Declension