mirliton
chayote: term used in Cajun cooking
Origin of mirliton
origin, originally , a small toy flute or kazoo from Fr: echoic; connection with the fruit unknownmirliton
noun
Chiefly Southern Louisiana See chayote.
Origin of mirliton
Louisiana French (perhaps from the kazoolike shape of chayote fruit) from French mirliton coin, reed pipe with a vibrating membrane, kazoo perhaps from a song refrain ( such as mireli, mirela refrain of the popular 16th-century song “Dessus le marché d'Arras” describing a man offering money to a young woman for her favors )mirliton
Noun
(plural mirlitons)
