penchant

Betekenis (Engels)

  1. (countable, uncountable) Taste, liking, or inclination (for).
  2. (uncountable) A card game resembling bezique.
  3. (countable, uncountable) In the game of penchant, any queen and jack of different suits held at the same time.

Frekwensie

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Uitgespreek as (IPA)
/ˈpɒnʃɒn/
Etimologie (Engels)

Unadapted borrowing from French penchant, present participle of pencher (“to tilt, to lean”), from Middle French, from Old French pengier (“to tilt, be out of line”), from Vulgar Latin *pendicāre, a derivative of Latin pendere (“to hang”).

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