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pettitoes

Meaninggoose giblets

Common meaning: pig's trotters as food

Journey through time

  1. Old Frenchpetite oye‘goose giblets’source
  2. Middle Frenchpetitose‘poultry giblets’source
  3. Englishmeaning shiftspoultry giblets → pig's trotters as foodpettitoes‘pig's trotters as food’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
  • US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.

Origin: Built on Old French petite oye ‘goose giblets’.

Did you know: our wording, based on Skeat, Concise Etymological Dictionary (1911), entry PETTITOES, p. 663 · dictionary scan

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