Quince : noun Le quince is the fruit of quince, yellow, harsh and cottony.
Dumb, idiot: What a quince!
To be yellow like a quince: to have a very yellow complexion.
Drunk like a quince (*): drunk, drunk
Quince jelly: difficult situation.
Gender of the woman.
(*) The expression "Stuffed like a quince": completely drunk.
Drunk, we know what that means, but why like a quince ?
When we are drunk, in slang, we are also round ("Like a shovel tail", possibly). However, it turns out that the quince is a relatively round fruit, less than an apple or an orange, of course, but much more than a banana!
According to Alain Rey, this "roundness" would have been one of the reasons for choosing this fruit. According to the lexicographer Gaston Esnault (1874-1971) in 1935, Quince would also have been chosen by play on words between fruit and the corner, the wedge you push in to jam or hold something.