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Etymology 1
Noun
kalikot (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜎᜒᜃᜓᜆ᜔)
- poking and stirring or scraping into a hole (with the finger or some instrument)
- Synonyms: kalikol, kalikaw, kikig, sulsog
- slender bamboo or metal tube with a poking rod for crushing and mixing betel leaves, areca nuts, and lime, to make chewing buyo
- Synonym: katikot
- (slang) masturbation
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Etymology 2
Ultimately from Malayalam കോഴിക്കോട് (kōḻikkōṭŭ) via Brunei Malay. Doublet of kaliko.
Noun
kalikot (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜎᜒᜃᜓᜆ᜔) (obsolete)
- silk underpants from Brunei
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Etymology 3
Noun
kalikot (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜎᜒᜃᜓᜆ᜔)
- (obsolete) giving signs for a child to suckle
Kalikutan mo itong batang ito ng pulot, ng gatas kaya.- Have this child suckle honey or milk.
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Further reading
- “kalikot”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
- San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero, La Noble Villa de Pila
- page 317: “Faja) Calicot (pp) de tapar ſus partes, eſta era de ſeda venida de Burney”
- page 461: “Paladear) Calicot (pp) L. al niño que o ſaue mamar”