cocotte (redirected from cocottes)

co·cotte  (kô-kôt)

n.

A woman prostitute.

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[French, chicken, prostitute, feminine diminutive of coq, cock, from Old French; see cock¹.]

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cocotte [kəʊˈkɒt kə- (French) kɔkɔt]

n

1. (Cookery) a small fireproof dish in which individual portions of food are cooked and served

2. a prostitute or promiscuous woman

[from French, from nursery word for a hen, feminine of coq cock¹]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	cocotte - a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money bawd, cyprian, fancy woman, harlot, lady of pleasure, prostitute, sporting lady, tart, whore, woman of the street, working girl call girl - a female prostitute who can be hired by telephone camp follower - a prostitute who provides service to military personnel comfort woman, ianfu - a woman forced into prostitution for Japanese servicemen during World War II; "she wrote a book about her harsh experiences as a comfort woman" demimondaine - a woman whose sexual promiscuity places her outside respectable society hustler, slattern, street girl, streetwalker, floozie, floozy, hooker - a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets white slave - a woman sold into prostitution adult female, woman - an adult female person (as opposed to a man); "the woman kept house while the man hunted"
	2.	cocotte - a small casserole in which individual portions can be cooked and served casserole - large deep dish in which food can be cooked and served