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
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mirliton
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 )THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(plural mirlitons)
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