chicot

From French chicot.

chicot (plural chicots)

1. Synonym of Kentucky coffeetree.
2. (Canada, forestry) A tree or tree limb that is dead and may fall and cause injury.
   • 1972, Pulp & Paper Magazine of Canada (volume 73, issues 1-6, page 28)

     Felling a tree which is supporting a chicot can be dangerous as depicted in the above drawing. The victim in this case was fatally crushed by the falling chicot.

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃiˈkot/
• Syllabification: chi‧cot
• Rhymes: -ot

chicot (feminine chicota, masculine plural chicotz, feminine plural chicotas)

1. Very small, very little
2. (derogatory) Ugly little

• 2022 October, Diccionario ortografico de l'aragonés (Seguntes la PO de l'EFA) (version 13) (in Aragonese), page 523
• 2024 October, Diccionario aragonés-castellano-catalán: Estudio de Filología Aragonesa (version 14) (in Aragonese), page 251

From chique (“small piece; (Belgium) chewing gum”) +‎ -ot.

• IPA^(key): /ʃi.ko/

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• Hyphenation: chi‧cot

chicot m (plural chicots)

1. stump, stub
2. a snag, a dead or dying tree that remains standing

• “chicot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• Workplace Safety North

Borrowed from Bulgarian кикот (kikot) or Serbo-Croatian kikot, from Proto-Slavic *kykotъ.

chicot n (plural chicote)

1. titter