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Provençal proverb

Es un gros Darnagas.

Simpletons

Maritime Provençal

Es un gros Darnagas.

Meaning

He is a great blockhead.

Note : The word Darnagas means a shrike, and can only be used proverbially in the sense of a simpleton.

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Source : La Tour-Keyrié, Recueil de proverbes provençaux (1882), Gallica — public domain. Maritime Mistralian normalisation by Lingua Nostra.

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