A state of moody sullenness or pouting; a fit of petulant bad humor, especially from a lover or romantic partner.
From French 'bouderie,' derived from 'bouder' (to pout/sulk), with the suffix '-ie' (-ery in English). The word captures a distinctly French romantic notion of temperamental behavior.
This untranslatable French concept describes that romantic pouting-and-giving-the-silent-treatment dynamic so perfectly that even English speakers borrowed the word because we had no elegant way to describe it!
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