papabote

English

a papabote

Alternative forms

• papabot, papabotte

Etymology

From Cajun French papabote, pape-a-bote. See Old French bote (“high shoe, boot”).

Noun

papabote (plural papabotes)

1. (US, dialect) A bird, the upland sandpiper.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “papabote”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)