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While in a conversation with my mates, I came across some expression with “six boulots”. I was pretty sure that they were not talking about six jobs and just like my previous queries I am well above 90% that I heard it right. I couldn't interpret the whole sentence but it was like having “six boulots” or something similar!
This is one of the many instances I come across, words like these either I completely forget it or sometimes google has an answer and the rest are in the FSE database :-) .
You've heard ciboulot, which originally is the name of a small onion. It's sometimes used figuratively for “head” or “brain” in popular language.
Au Québec, ciboulot est utilisé en tant que juron comme dans la phrase: "Il a été rapide en ciboulot" signifiant: il a été vraiment très rapide.
Six boulots could be six escargots. There is a type of snails that it called boulot. In the U.S sometimes we see it sold in fancy seafoods market and it comes from Canada.
