cancan

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) A high-kicking chorus line dance originating in France.
 * 2)  A trick where one leg is brought over the seat, so that both legs are on one side.
 * 1)  A trick where one leg is brought over the seat, so that both legs are on one side.

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 康康舞
 * Czech: kankán
 * Finnish: cancan
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese: カンカン, フレンチカンカン
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:

Verb

 * 1) To dance the cancan.

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)  French dance

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) cancan

Etymology
Supposedly, this word originates with a dispute at the Collège de France circa 1550, over whether to use a traditional French pronunciation of Latin or a reconstructed pronunciation of Latin. One of the points of most dispute was the pronunciation of qu, with the word quamquam exemplifying this: it was pronounced in reconstructed Latin as but pronounced in French Latin as  ("cancan"). After this debacle, a "cancan" came to be "any kind of scandalous performance".

Noun

 * 1) gossip
 * 2) cancan dance

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) gossip

Etymology
Borrowed from.