hoquet

hoquet (countable and uncountable, plural hoquets)

1. (music) Alternative form of hocket.

Inherited from Middle French hoquet, icquet (“hiccup”), probably of Germanic origin, ultimately onomatopoeic. Compare Old Norse hixta (“to hiccup”), Middle High German heschezen, heschitzen (“to gulp, burp, sob”), Middle Dutch hicken (“to hiccup”), obsolete English hicket, hyckock (“hiccup”). More at hiccup.

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /ɔ.kɛ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛ
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hoquet m (plural hoquets)

1. (onomatopoeia) hiccup (spasm of the diaphragm)

• hoqueter

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