tutoyer

American  

[too-twah-yey, ty-twa-yey] / ˌtu twɑˈyeɪ, tü twaˈyeɪ /

verb (used with object)

tutoyered, tutoyed, tutoyering

1. to address (someone), especially in French, using the familiar forms of the pronoun “you” rather than the more formal forms; address familiarly.

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Etymology

Origin of tutoyer

1690–1700; < French, to address as tu and toi (the familiar singular forms for “you” in French)

Example Sentences

“I am Dominique. Just call me Dominique. Not Madame—Dominique. I will tutoyer you. You can tutoyer me, too,” she says, indicating that we’re all to use the informal form of address.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 1, 2016

I can’t tutoyer for the life of me.”

From Molly Brown's College Friends by Speed, Nell

But he was growing warm, and began to tutoyer Hereward.

From Hereward, the Last of the English by Kingsley, Charles

C’est mon sentiment que nos relations ne peuvent pas se bien continuer si vous ne me donnez pas la permission de vous tutoyer.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 by Stevenson, Robert Louis

I was half inclined to array myself in drab, and tutoyer the first of the body I chanced to encounter in my walks abroad.

From Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis by Davies, Charles Maurice