coquecigrue

common noun

Syllable Decomposition

coquecigrue

this word was first used in French literature by François Rabelais, spelled as cocquecigrue, who recounts in Gargantua how Picrochole, defeated and driven from his kingdom, 'was advised by an old lourpidon (witch) that his kingdom would be restored to him upon the arrival of the coquecigrues.'

Definitions

mythologie

Synonyms

Plural

coquecigrues

Translations

  • germangerman:Windhühner