magot
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French
Noun
magot (plural magots)
- (archaic) The Barbary ape.
- 1800, The Lady's Magazine Or Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex (volume 31, page 16)
- The magot differs from the ape by having a long muzzle and large canine teeth; and from the baboon by having no actual tail; though it has an exuberance of skin which bears that appearance.
- 1800, The Lady's Magazine Or Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex (volume 31, page 16)
- (art) A small grotesque figure depicted crouching on the covers of vases, etc.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “magot”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Unknown/uncertain origin.
Pronunciation
Noun
magot m (plural magots)
- (colloquial) pile (of money), hoard
- a commercial agent
Further reading
- “magot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norman
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Noun
magot m (plural magots)
Volapük
Noun
magot (nominative plural magots)
Declension
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