cancan

Mane (Îngilîzî)

1. (masculine) gossip (idle talk)
2. (masculine) cancan (dance)

Hevwate

commérage

ragot

potin

médisance

rumeur

commentaire

papotage

commenter

contenter

racontar

Werger

gossip

chiacchiera

fofoca

chisme

cancan

Klatsch

dedikodu

Cancan

pettegolezzo

cancán

bisbilhotice

gazzettino

can-can

diceria

xafarderia

Wekî (IPA) tê bilêvkirin

/kɑ̃.kɑ̃/

Etîmolojî (Îngilîzî)

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 [ˈkʷam.kʷã(m)] but pronounced in French Latin as /kɑ̃.kɑ̃/ ("cancan"). After this debacle, a "cancan" came to be "any kind of scandalous performance".