What is the difference between the words canine and canaille?
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 at
2:12 pm
Not my sentiment-I got this from a book about 18th C. England.
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canine = dog
canaille = "A contemptuous name given to the populace; the ‘vile herd’, vile populace; the rabble, the mob" (OED, various other spellings include canaile, cannale, kennel, cannailyie, canalyie)
Both come from Latin for "dog", but canaille = pack of dogs.
Canaille refers to rabble, lowest class of people
Canine refers to dogs
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