pettitoes

American  

[pet-ee-tohz] / ˈpɛt iˌtoʊz /

plural noun

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

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

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pettitoes British  

/ ˈpɛtɪˌtəʊz /

plural noun

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

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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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pettitoes

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

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

We can send black puddings and pettitoes without giving them a flavour of our own egoism; but language is a stream that is almost sure to smack of a mingled soil.

From Silas Marner by George Eliot

Yes, Salted-Mouth, otherwise Drink-without-Thirst, was no doubt in want of some pettitoes.

From L'Assommoir by Émile Zola

And Aristophanes makes mention of the extremities of animals as forming a common dish, in his Æolosicon— And of a truth, plague take it, I have boil'd Four tender pettitoes for you for dinner.

From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us