Guindaille

Guindaille is a Belgicisme which is used to indicate various student's festive activities whose common point is the consumption of Bière and the songs ribalds.

Can be distinguished:

guindaille , indicates originally a humorous text even lampoonist using of the puns, word games, spoonerisms and presented by a student before an assembly of his pars;
guindaille , the fact of attending in restricted group of the bars, with strong consumption. Guindailler , it is to deliver itself to the guindaille. The guindaillor (- euse) , it is that which is delivered to the guindaille;
guindaille , the activity of the committees of student's baptism resulting from university faculties or of universities, or from the independent orders. Various celebrations and drinking songs;
guindaille , of great collective and folk demonstrations, organized on the site of a University: the 24 hour-bicycle of Leuwen-the-New, Cut of Mons, the Saint Nicolas's Day, the Saint-Verhaegen of Brussels, the Saint-Torus and 4 hours child's scooters of Liege, the 6 hours Brouette S of Gembloux.

Its etymology is fuzzy, like that of much of words coming from the student's slang. Its written use the oldest date of 1882, in the book Therese Monique of Camille Lemonnier which wanted to already say “merry meeting, drinking bout”. Sources say that the term comes from the word Wallon godaille , coming itself from the Bas-francique goed ale , which would have been influenced by the term Picardo-Walloon guinse also meaning “drinking bout”. Other sources evoke the word guindal which was “glass with drinking” with half XIXe century. “To make guindal” resulted in “clinking glasses” in the student's middle of the time, and one would have added the suffix - goes giving a pejorative direction to the mot.

See too

External bonds

Guindaille.be
Guindaille.com
Songs of guindaille
Some Belgian student's orders

Random links: