chicotte

English

Alternative forms

• chicote

Etymology

From French chicotte.

Noun

chicotte (plural chicottes)

1. A long knotted whip with a wooden handle, formerly used as a punishment in the Congo and Portuguese Africa.
   • 1928 November 28, Daily Express:

     Corporal punishment, or ‘chicotte’, now exists only in the Congo army.

   • 1998, Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost, Pan, published 2012, page 120:

     Usually the chicotte was applied to the victim's bare buttocks.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese chicote, probably borrowed from French chicot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃi.kɔt/

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Noun

chicotte f (plural chicottes)

1. whip, chicotte

Further reading

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