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)

1. (colloquial) tooth, toothy-peg

Derived terms

• quenottier

Further reading

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