cahoots

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• Received-Pronunciation: kə-ho͞otsʹ
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• Received-Pronunciation: /kəˈhuːts/
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• General-American: /kəˈhuts/
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• rhymes with -uːts
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• CMU ARPABET: K AH0 HH UW1 T S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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PIE word *ḱóm From earlier cahoot + -s (suffix forming regular plurals of nouns). Cahoot is probably borrowed: * from French cahute (“hut, shack”), from Dutch kajuit (“cabin on a ship”), from Middle Low German kajüte, probably from Middle Dutch kayhute; further etymology uncertain, possibly borrowed from Old French *cahute, chahute (whence Middle French quahute), a blend of cabane (“cabin, hut, shack”) + hute (“hut”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“to conceal, hide; to cover; hide, skin”)); or * from French cohorte (“group of people supporting the same person or thing, cohort”), from Latin cohors (“cohort; crowd”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“beside, by; near; with”) + *ǵher- (“to enclose”) (and if so, a doublet of cohort).

15 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Danish: ledtog — collaboration or collusion, chiefly for a nefarious reason — see also collaboration, collusion
• Finnish: juonittelu — collaboration or collusion, chiefly for a nefarious reason — see also collaboration, collusion
• Finnish: salajuoni — collaboration or collusion, chiefly for a nefarious reason — see also collaboration, collusion
• French: ligue — collaboration or collusion, chiefly for a nefarious reason — see also collaboration, collusion
• German: etwas gemeinsam ausfressen — collaboration or collusion, chiefly for a nefarious reason — see also collaboration, collusion
• Greek: τα κάνω πλακάκια (ta káno plakákia) — collaboration or collusion, chiefly for a nefarious reason — see also collaboration, collusion
• Hungarian: összejátszás — collaboration or collusion, chiefly for a nefarious reason — see also collaboration, collusion
• Italian: combutta — collaboration or collusion, chiefly for a nefarious reason — see also collaboration, collusion
• Japanese: 共謀 (kyōbō) — collaboration or collusion, chiefly for a nefarious reason — see also collaboration, collusion
• Norwegian: ledtog — collaboration or collusion, chiefly for a nefarious reason — see also collaboration, collusion
• Portuguese: conluio — collaboration or collusion, chiefly for a nefarious reason — see also collaboration, collusion
• Portuguese: trama — collaboration or collusion, chiefly for a nefarious reason — see also collaboration, collusion
• Russian: соучастник (součastnik) — collaboration or collusion, chiefly for a nefarious reason — see also collaboration, collusion
• Spanish: colusión — collaboration or collusion, chiefly for a nefarious reason — see also collaboration, collusion
• Swedish: maskopi — collaboration or collusion, chiefly for a nefarious reason — see also collaboration, collusion