Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tompouce

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: tom-pouce
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A pastry from the Netherlands resembling mille-feuille.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Because their royal dynasty is the House of Orange, locals don’t paint the town red, but orange. They also dress themselves and often their pets in orange, paint their faces orange and wear orange wigs; even tompouce – the popular local, cream-filled pastries – get orange icing on the day."
"Want to support the DutchNews podcast and keep up our stocks of stroopwafels and orange tompouces?"
"Donyell Malen puts the icing on the tompouce, darting away up the left and firing a fabulous finish past Florin Nita as the Dutch go dancing into the last eight."

Etymology

From Dutch tompoes, from French Tom Pouce, the French translation of English Tom Thumb.

Origin

Source language: Dutch

Word Breakdown

Root: tompoes, Tom Pouce, Tom Thumb

Usage

Inflected Forms

tompouces (plural)

Questions

What does tompouce mean?: A pastry from the Netherlands resembling mille-feuille.
Where does tompouce come from?: It is traced to Dutch.

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