Quarteron [nm]
Switzerland: old measure of capacity for grain. Bichet
1 / 2 quarts a measure worth (...) (On the Web).
Four-am [loc. inv.]
Snacks that we take about four hours. The four-hour
peasants. Buffet of local produce, including: farmer's bread, butter, various cheeses, sausage and jerky, terrine (...) (On the Web).
Que [adverb]
Neuchâtel: Is not it? Is it not true? [Pierrehumbert]. This expression has become a stereotype of speaking Neuchâtel, although it tends to disappear. By
metaphor, means that you Neuchâtel.
Say the "what you" ... You speak a native of Noiraigue and Bridges Martel.
No! That yes! [Interj.]
Switzerland: of course not, of course yes.
Damn! Saperlipopette! No ... no ... researchers, inventors, artists, art, culture, invention, even Utopia is not the causes that are supported in this country. (Andrew Sprenger, on the Web).
And yes, Genghis, I made these demos, oh yes. (On the Web).
Quette [nf]
Switzerland: braid hair.
Quicageon, quiquajon [nm]
Vaud: shelter skeleton in a garden, wooden house. Probably derived from kikajon, name from the Bible: And the LORD God prepared a kikajon and brought him up over Jonah to shade over his head. (Jonas, Ch. 4). According exegesis that name could mean either a castor or squash. Figuratively it also mean "precarious shelter .
Who is for? [Ibid.]
Germanism: Who is it?
Quinquerne [nf]
1. Hurdy-gurdy. Kinkerne Savoyard dialect, perhaps cancorna patois, "beetle" because of the continuous noise it produces.
2. Person slow to decide, who listens continually rehashing that, alluding to his continuing the instrument. How old
quinquerne!
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