baguette

See also: Baguette

English

baguette (3)

Etymology

Borrowed from French baguette (“stick”), from Italian bacchetta.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bæˈɡɛt/

Noun

baguette (plural baguettes)

  1. A narrow, relatively long rectangular shape.
  2. A gem cut in such a shape.
  3. A variety of bread that is long and narrow in shape.
  4. (architecture) A small molding, like the astragal, but smaller; a bead.
  5. (zoology) One of the minute bodies seen in the divided nucleoli of some Infusoria after conjugation.
  6. (ethnic slur, mildly offensive, slang) A French person, or a person of French descent.[2]
    Synonym: frog

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References

  1. ↑ http://www.cnrtl.fr/etymologie/baguette
  2. ↑ Kashima, Yoshihisa, Klaus Fiedler, and Peter Freytag. Stereotype dynamics: Language-based approaches to the formation, maintenance, and transformation of stereotypes. Taylor & Francis, 2008. p. 118.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian bacchetta.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ba.ɡɛt/
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Noun

baguette f (plural baguettes)

  1. stick, rod, any long thin object
  2. (food) baguette, French stick
    J'achète une baguette tous les jours.
    I buy a baguette every day.
  3. chopstick
    Les japonais mangent avec des baguettes.
    The Japanese eat with chopsticks.
  4. (music) drumstick; (conductor's) baton
    Ringo est un maître des baguettes.
    Ringo is a drumstick master.
  5. wand
    Gwenda a agité sa baguette magique.
    Gwenda waved her magic wand.

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Spanish

Noun

baguette f (plural baguettes)

  1. baguette (bread)

Swedish

Noun

baguette c

  1. baguette (bread)

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