French (Quebecois?) translation help

[ElvisL1ves]

My company does a heavy volume of business with suppliers, a customer, and the customer’s customers in Canada, and especially Quebec. A co-worker who knows I can read French fairly well told me he got a draft document back from a supplier with the word “Écrapoux!” written on it, but unfortunately none of the French-English online dictionaries I could find had it. A little Googling found the word on a few Quebec-based web sites, leading me to suspect it’s Quebecois dialect, but none of them had enough context to let me figure out the meaning, beyond it being a masculine plural noun.

Tiens, mes amis, les Dopeurs quebecois, pouvez-vous m’aider? Qu’est-ce que le traduction propre en anglais pour le mot “Écrapoux”, s.v.p.? Merci beaucoup en avance.

[mnemosyne]

I believe it means something along the lines of destroyed or killed (I found one phrase mentioning a squished caterpillar). I’ll ask the bf when he comes home, he knows more slang in French than I do. What context were the pages you had? Or your draft document? That might help…

[ElvisL1ves]

Thanks, mnemosyne, the document context doesn’t help. A Google on “ecrapou” turned up pages like the following. Click on Google’s “Translate” function if you’re more interested in entertainment than education (for some reason, the links aren’t working in Preview, so tellwiddem):

Vince Bischoff: Good evening my gang of step with a future and welcome in another excellent official reception of the HCW!! This evening one is entitled to a super official reception of after-PPV, since that 6 matches will be presented to you, of which the match of world championship of the HCW between S.o.s our new champion and Angel Of Death our jobber of quality!! That promises to be a super evening filled of action, but before passing to our first match, let to me present my two Co-organizers for the evening to you… Of course, there is my dear inseparable friend Gelé Hoops who nevertheless made a point of being here this evening in spite of the tragic death of his cat!! Thank you to be with us Cold…

Cold Hoops: Of nothing my face écrapou, but I would not have missed this official reception for all the gold of the world and especially not for my large inefficient of cat which had fun with going to play part of Tic-TAC-Toe on the motorway with the cat of the neighbor!

And

Unreal Tournament
YES! Ecrapou!!!
January 05, 2001

That to say moreover on this play if it is not that it is the best of its category. Unreal Tournament brought a new dimension to the plays (first person shooting) of its kind. A gameplay out of ordinary allowing those which have a machine more vieillotte to be confronted with those which have the GCV last cry in the absence of a quality of more sober image. (you fear)

UT is a success has all the points of view. The play of action without breakage head, of the pure and simple écrapou, a missile and idiot, you are only of piece! Who cares?! You are at once on your two legs, ready to give the similar one to him! Simplicity and écrapou it is well that which one wants not?!

[detop]

Hi, I have no idea what it really means, but I have a suspicion that it is related to the joual (Québec slang) verb écrapoutiller, meaning totally crush, destroy something or someone. Considering the context of the quotations, it would make sense.

[eunoia]

I tend to second detop for etymology, although ecrapoutiller is common enough, I can’t say the same for “Ecrapou!”. The meaning could be “killed initiative” much in the same way you might write “OBE”: Overtaken By Events, thus, no longer relevant (compare: Order of the British Empire, heh heh).
Crisse de tete carree.