chicotte

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English

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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

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