bilboquet

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French bilboquet.

Noun

bilboquet (plural bilboquets)

  1. A traditional children's toy consisting of a wooden cup with a handle, and a ball attached to the cup by a string.
    Synonym: cup-and-ball

Translations
cup-and-ball — see cup-and-ball

See also

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for bilboquet in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

French

Etymology

The first element perhaps an imperative form of Middle French biller (“to play boules”), the second a diminutive of either bouc (“goat”) or Middle French bouque (“boule”).[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /bil.bɔ.kɛ/
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Noun

bilboquet m (plural bilboquets)

  1. bilboquet

Descendants
  • → English: bilboquet
  • → Polish: bilbokiet

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

Further reading
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