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fourche: pitchfork; fork (in the road etc.); crotch; split end (hair); fork (of a bicycle)
fourche à vanner: winnowing fork
fourcher: to fork; to make a slip of the tongue
fourchette: fork (for eating); diner, eater; wishbone; range; fork
fourchette sternale: suprasternal notch
fourchette vulvaire: fourchette
fourchette à découper: carving fork
fourchette à fondue: fondue fork
fourchette à gâteau: pastry fork
fourchette à poisson: fish fork
fourchette à salade: salad fork
fourchu: cloven, cleft; forked; split (ends of hair)
fourgat: synonym of receleur (“fence”)
fourgon: poker, fire poker; coach, wagon; truck; van; minivan
fourgonnette: van; minivan
fourgue: fence, receiver
fourguer: to sell off; to flog; to get rid of, offload (something)
fouriérisme: Fourierism
fouriériste: Fourierist
fourloureur: a murderer, an assassin.
fourme: a type of creamy blue cheese made from cow's milk
fourmi: ant; pins and needles
fourmi-lion: antlion (any insect of the family Myrmeleontidae)
fourmilier: anteater; any of a number of different species of ant-eating birds
fourmilier géant: giant anteater
fourmilier nain: silky anteater, pygmy anteater
fourmilion: alternative spelling of fourmi-lion
fourmilière: anthill; beehive (place full of activity, or in which people are very busy)
fourmillement: swarming; pins and needles
fourmiller: to swarm, to be full of; to tingle
fourmis: pins and needles
fournaise: furnace; furnace (extremely hot area); blaze, conflagration
fourneau: stove (cooker); stove (heater); chamber (of a tobacco pipe); beggar, hobo
fourni: abundant, luxuriant
fournier: hornero; baker
fournil: bakehouse
fourniment: equipment, kit, furniment
fournir: to supply, to provide, to furnish; to put in; to follow suit; to poke, to shaft, to hump; to have sex
fournisses: second-person singular present/imperfect subjunctive of fournir
fournisseur: provider, supplier
fourniture: supply, provision; provisioning, victualling; furniture, furnishings; piece of furniture
fournée: the capacity of an oven; batch
fourrage: forage, fodder
fourrager: to forage; to rummage through
fourrager: fodder
fourrageur: forager
fourragère: hay wagon
fourre: cover, slipcover, folder
fourre-tout: catch-all; ragbag, hodgepodge; holdall (UK), carryall (US)
fourreau: scabbard, sheath; sheath dress
fourrer: to shove, stick, stuff (dans in something); to stuff (a turkey etc.); to fill (a cake); to fuck, to shaft, to screw
fourrer dans le même sac: synonym of mettre dans le même sac
fourrer la paume: to bribe
fourrer les pieds: to set foot (somewhere)
fourrer son nez: to stick one's nose
fourreur: furrier
fourrier: forager; quartermaster; harbinger
fourrière: pound (place for the detention of stray animals); tow pound, car impound (place to which law enforcement tow vehicle)
fourrure: fur
fourré: thicket