chicotte
English
Alternative forms
- chicote
Etymology
From French chicotte.
Noun
chicotte (plural chicottes)
- A long knotted whip with a wooden handle, formerly used as a punishment in the Congo and Portuguese Africa.
- 1928, Daily Express, 28 November:
- Corporal punishment, or ‘chicotte’, now exists only in the Congo army.
- 1998, Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost, Pan 2012, p. 120:
- Usually the chicotte was applied to the victim's bare buttocks.
- 1928, Daily Express, 28 November:
French
Etymology
From Portuguese chicote, probably borrowed from French chicot.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʃi.kɔt/
Noun
chicotte f (plural chicottes)
- whip, chicotte
Further reading
- “chicotte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.