pettitoes

[ pet-ee-tohz ]

plural noun
  1. the feet of a pig, especially used as food.

  2. the human toes or feet, especially those of a child.

Origin of pettitoes

1
1545–55; plural of obsolete pettytoe offal <Middle French petite oye giblets of a goose, equivalent to petitepetite + oye goose <Late Latin avica;see ocarina

Words Nearby pettitoes

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How to use pettitoes in a sentence

  • We can not wonder that the whole connection of pettitoes, when advanced to the matron state, is entirely neglected.

  • It was unoccupied, save by pettitoes, the cat, who had curled himself up luxuriously in Mrs. Sanford's work-basket.

  • She would wash a counterpane if pettitoes, the most dainty of cats, happened but to set one of his snowy paws upon it.

  • We cannot wonder that the whole connection of pettitoes, when advanced to the matron state, is entirely neglected.

    The Potiphar Papers | George William Curtis
  • At mother Louis', whilst they sucked the little bones of the pettitoes, they again fell to abusing the employers.

    L'Assommoir | Emile Zola

British Dictionary definitions for pettitoes

pettitoes

/ (ˈpɛtɪˌtəʊz) /


pl n
  1. pig's trotters, esp when used as food

Origin of pettitoes

1
C16: from Old French petite oie, literally: little goose (giblets of a goose)

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