pitoune

== French == === Etymology === According to Jacques Rousseau, it is cited to be from an Amerindian language meaning "log", which however does not adequately describe how the term originally referred to a buckwheat pancake. Its usage as a term for a felled log being floated to a mill may be explained as a reference to a log's resemblance to a rolled pitoune. In the sense "stunner; bimbo", often cited as an anglicism from a corruption of English happy town, but may have been coined as a feminine equivalent to pitou instead. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /pi.tun/ === Noun === pitoune f (plural pitounes) (Quebec, dated) buckwheat pancake felled log ready to be floated to the mill (Quebec, sometimes derogatory) stunner; bimbo === References ===