This verb is intransitive (we don't listen to something).
When a person in Normandy, in Brittany, in Pays de Loire, bouine, she goes around in circles, she stirs the wind, she hangs around, she hangs out.
In the South, it looks like she's radasse.
Bouiner, a non-activity to bring back into fashion in this era of overactivity.
Andrew!
Are you going down?
You're up there, I bet.
What are you boiling?
It's a quarter past seven!
René Étiemble, "The Choir Boy" (1947)
Excerpt from
The most beautiful expressions of our regions
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