pettitoes
Americanplural noun
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the feet of a pig, especially used as food.
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the human toes or feet, especially those of a child.
plural noun
Etymology
Origin of pettitoes
1545–55; plural of obsolete pettytoe offal < Middle French petite oye giblets of a goose, equivalent to petite petite + oye goose < Late Latin avica; see ocarina
Example Sentences
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And Strattis, in his Atalanta, says— Next buy the entrails of a tunny, and Some pettitoes of pigs, to cost a drachma.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
The pettitoes are little feet, And the little feet not big; Great feet belong to the grunting hog, And the pettitoes to the little pig.
From The Nursery Rhymes of England by Various
Next, he calls the women's tailor-made gowns "the very pettitoes of infirmity, the giblets of perquisquilian toys."
From History of American Literature by Reuben Post Halleck
When you cut off the pettitoes, leave the skin long round the ends of the legs.
From The Cook's Oracle; and Housekeeper's Manual by William Kitchiner
I do not like to see a table ill spread, Poor, meager, just sprinkled o'er with salads, Slic'd beef, giblets, and pigs' pettitoes.
From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810 by S. C. (Stephen Cullen) Carpenter
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