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A simpleton, a youngster. French, Cornichon (a cornicle or little horn), also a simpleton, a calf.
“Panurge le veau cocquart, cornichon, escorne … viens ici nous ayder, grand veau plourart.” etc.”—Rabelais, book iv. chap. xxi.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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