canticoy
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From an (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "alg" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. (probably (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "del" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E.) language; compare Unami këntke (“he dances”).
Noun
canticoy (plural canticoys)
- (archaic, rare) A social gathering, usually for dancing.
- 1906, Richard C. Adams, A Brief History of the Delaware Indians, page 17:
- The Indians denied us going to the town on excuse of a canticoy. We lodged in the woods that night.
- 1923, in The Freeman, volume 6, page 457:
- […] as long as M. Poincaré keeps up his canticoys, so long will that disturbance increase.
References
- “canticoy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.