çekim: geçmiş bâclé · ortaç bâclé · şimdiki bâcle · ulaç bâclant
eş: traiter par dessous la jambe, traiter par dessus la jambe
köken: Perhaps from unattested Middle French and Old French *bâcler, *bacler (“to hold in place, prop a door or window open”). From Vulgar Latin *bacculare, from Latin baculum (“rod, staff used for support”), from Proto-Indo-European *bak-. Indirectly attested in Old French desbacler (“to clear a harbour by getting ships unloaded to make room for incoming ships with lading”). The hypothesis of a…
çekim: geçmiş fiz nas coxas · ortaç feito nas coxas · şimdiki faz nas coxas
köken: Literally, “to make on the thighs”, i.e. on the lap (the thigh tops/foresides) while seated. The origin is uncertain, probably from the idea of working on something (e.g. writing) over one's lap, rather than using a table or workbench, which is more efficient and less error-prone. It is sometimes incorrectly believed to come from a supposed colonial practice of using slaves' thighs as rooftile…