cancan

/ˈkænˌkæn/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.79 in modern English

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noun

A trick where one leg is brought over the seat, so that both legs are on one side.

verb

To dance the cancan.

"They formed up, in perfect silence, in two lines, facing each other between us and the fire, and then the dance - a sort of infernal and fiendish cancan - began."

Borrowed from French cancan.

cancans (plural) can-can (alternative) cancans (present, singular) cancanning (participle, present) cancanned (participle, past) cancanned (past)

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How do you pronounce cancan?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˈkænˌkæn/.

What does cancan mean?

A high-kicking chorus line dance originating in France.

Where does cancan come from?

Borrowed from French cancan.

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