vieux jeu

English

Etymology

From French vieux jeu.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /vjəˈʒə/

Adjective

vieux jeu (comparative more vieux jeu, superlative most vieux jeu)

1. Old-fashioned, outmoded.
   • 1954, Doris Lessing, A Proper Marriage, HarperPerennial, published 1995, page 358:

     If she was to leave Douglas, for what way of living was she to leave? There's something so damned vieux jeu, she thought gloomily, in leaving like Nora, to live differently!

Dutch

Etymology

From French vieux jeu.

Noun

vieux jeu n (uncountable)

1. something unoriginal, same old story

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vjø ʒø/

Adjective

vieux jeu (invariable)

1. old-fashioned (of persons, manners)

Descendants

• → Dutch: vieux jeu
• → English: vieux jeu

See also

• vieille France
• vieille école