pettitoes

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Dutch oven before the fire; the pettitoes were getting on deliciously in

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  1. plural noun The feet of a pig used as food.
  2. plural noun Human feet or toes, especially those of a child.

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  • My clown (who wants but something to be a reasonable man) grew so in love with the wenches' song that he would not stir his pettitoes, till he had both tune and words The tabor and pipe, in the servant's first speech, were common popular instruments. —  Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries
  • The cheese was simmering and browning away, most delightfully, in a little Dutch oven before the fire; the pettitoes were getting on deliciously in a little tin saucepan on the hob; and Mrs. Bardell and her two friends were getting on very well, also, in a little quiet conversation about and concerning all their particular friends and acquaintance; when Master Bardell came back from answering the door, and delivered the message intrusted to him by Mr. Samuel Weller Mr. Pickwick's servant!' —  The Pickwick Papers
  • No. It an't faint enough for pettitoes. —  The Chimes
  • Slic'd beef, giblets, and pigs 'pettitoes. —  The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810
  • "Ah! goot, goot, I understan '-- pettitoes. —  Ungava
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  1. Possibly from earlier pettytoe, offal (influenced by petty and toe), possibly from Old French petite oye, giblets of a goose : petite, small + oye, goose (from Late Latin auca; see ocarina).

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  1. from petty + toes.
 

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/ˈpɛtɪtoʊz/
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