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bonbonne

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
bon-bonne
IPA
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A demijohn or carboy.

noun

A gas cylinder.

Etymology

Borrowed from French bonbonne f, from Occitan boumbouno m [from boumbo + -ouno, ultimately from Latin bombus and -ōnem], made feminine in French under the influence of French bonne (unrelated), and with change of bomb- to bonb- under the influence of French bonbon (also unrelated). Although less common in French, the spelling bombonne more accurately reflects the Latin bomb- root.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

bonbonnes (plural) bombonne (alternative)

Questions

What does bonbonne mean?
A demijohn or carboy.
Where does bonbonne come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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