Noun: chicotte
| Singular | chicotte |
| Plural | chicottes |
Sample Sentences
-
Corporal punishment, or ‘chicotte’, now exists only in the Congo army. [1928 November 28, Daily Express:]
-
Usually the chicotte was applied to the victim's bare buttocks. [1998, Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost, Pan, published 2012, page 120:]
Nouns inflected like chicotte
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From French chicotte. See: French Nouns '
chicotte'.