Cancan

Definition: Cancan

Cancan

Noun

1. A high-kicking dance of French origin performed by a female chorus line.

Date "cancan" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1866. (references)

Etymology: Cancan \Can"can\, noun. [French expression]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definitions: Cancan

Domain	Definitions
Literature	Cancan To dance the cancan. A free-and-easy way of dancing quadrilles invented by Rigolboche, and adopted in the public gardens, the opera comique, and the casinos of Paris. (Cancan familiarity, tittle-tattle.) "They were going through a quadrille with all those supplementary gestures introduced by the great Rigolboche, a notorious danseuse, to whom the notorious cancan owes its origin." - A. Egmont Hake: Paris Originals (the Chiffonier). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Cancan

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
CANCAN	English	Contract Negotiation and Charging in ATM Networks	N/A
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms within Context: Cancan

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Amusement	Dance; hop, reel, rigadoon, saraband, hornpipe, bolero, ballroom dance; minuet, waltz, polka, fox trot, tango, samba, rhumba, twist, stroll, hustle, cha-cha; fandango, cancan; bayadere; breakdown, cake-walk, cornwallis, break dancing; nautch-girl; shindig; skirtdance, stag dance, Virginia reel, square dance; galop, galopade; jig, Irish jig, fling, strathspey; allemande; gavot, gavotte, tarantella; mazurka, morisco, morris dance; quadrille; country dance, folk dance; cotillon, Sir Roger de Coverley; ballet; (drama); ball; bal, bal masque, bal costume; masquerade; Terpsichore.
Conversation	Causerie, chat, chitchat; small talk, table talk, teatable talk, town talk, village talk, idle talk; tattle, gossip, tittle-tattle; babble, babblement; tripotage, cackle, prittle-prattle, cancan, on dit; talk of the town, talk of the village.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Cancan

Specialty definitions using "cancan": Quanquam. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Cancan" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (cancan, dirt, tidbit, titbit), Italian (cancan, fuss, noise), Romanian (cancan, gossip, tittle tattle), Spanish (cancan), Swedish (cancan).

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Modern Usage: Cancan

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	'Cus we can cancan! Yes we can cancan! (Moulin Rouge!; writing credit: Baz Luhrmann; Craig Pearce)
Tongue Twisters	Catch a can canner canning a can as he does the cancan, amd you've caught a can-anning can-canning can canner! (references; author: unknown)
Movie/TV Titles	French Cancan (1955) Oh La La Glamour Girls 16: The Cancan Special No.1 (2002)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Cancan

Domain	Title
Books	Cancan (reference) Die G�tter tanzen Cancan : Richard Wagners Liebesrevolten (reference) Since Lulu Learned the Cancan (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Cancan

"Cancan" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Cancan" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	3	202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Cancan

Language		Translations for "cancan"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏الكنكان رقصة فرنسية. (various references)

Bulgarian		канкан. (various references)

Czech		kankán. (various references)

Farsi		یک نوع رقص نشاطاور. (various references)

French		cancan. (various references)

Greek		κανκάν, είδοσ χορού (cakewalk, foxtrot, hornpipe, reel). (various references)

Hungarian		kánkán. (various references)

Italian		cancan (fuss, noise). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		フレコン化 (changing something to full remote control, flex, flextime, float, floater serve, floating, flooring, flora, flow, flow inflation, flowchart, French, French cancan, French dressing, French kiss, French sleeve, French toast, fresh, fresher, freshman, fret, fretless, friend, friendly, friends, friendship, frozen food, frozen yoghurt, newly hired career-track company employee, wooden floor). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		フレンチカンカン (French cancan). (various references)

Pig Latin		ancancay

Portuguese		cancã. (various references)

Romanian		cancan (gossip, tittle tattle). (various references)

Russian		канкан. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		kankan. (various references)

Spanish		cancan, cancán. (various references)

Swedish		cancan. (various references)

Thai		การเต้นรำที่ผู้หญิงยืนเรียงหน้ากระ�"านและเตะเท้าสูง. (various references)

Turkish		kankan dansı, kankan. (various references)

Ukranian		канкан. (various references)

Vietnamese		điệu nhảy căng-căng. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Cancan

Derivations
	Words beginning with "cancan": cancans. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Cancan" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cacah, Cachan, Cagccat, canaan, Canac, canan, canban, canca, cancanagh, cancar, cancern, cancun, cannan, Cansap, cantan, canvan, canyan, Carnochan, Catnach, Ccaccat, ceannain, Ceccano, Cencio, cincpac, cincta, cnca, cocan, concen, conican, cunan, danican, Kankan, Mankan, Nankani, Pankanj. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Cancan"

Words rhyming with "cancan" (pronounced 'Can"can'): AEsthetican, Antelucan, Cooncan, Dellacruscan, Etruscan, Flucan, Incan, Jamaican, Majorcan, Molluscan, Moroccan, Oscan, Spheniscan, toucan, Vulcan. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Cancan

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-n-n"
	-1 letter: canna.
	-2 letters: anna, caca, naan, nana.
	-3 letters: ana, can, nan.
	-4 letters: aa, an, na.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-c-n-n"
	+1 letter: cancans.
	+2 letters: cannabic.
	+3 letters: canonical.
	+4 letters: accountant, anachronic, anticancer, ascendance, ascendancy, cachinnate, canonicals, nonaccrual, noncardiac.
	+5 letters: accountancy, accountants, anacreontic, ascendances, cachinnated, cachinnates, calcination, cancelation, canonically, concatenate, mechanician, nonacademic, nonchalance, uncanonical, vaccinating, vaccination.
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