quenotte

French

Etymology

From Old Northern French cane (“jaw; tooth”) or Old Picard kenne (“jaw”), from Frankish *kinni, *kinnu (“cheek”), from Proto-Germanic *kinnuz (“cheek, chin”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénus (“chin, jaw”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kə.nɔt/
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Rhymes: -ɔt

Noun

quenotte f (plural quenottes)

(colloquial) tooth, toothy-peg

Derived terms

quenottier

Further reading

“quenotte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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