different between drumette vs drumstick

English

Alternative forms

• drummette

Etymology

drum +? -ette

Noun

drumette (plural drumettes)

1. (US) The first segment (meatier part) of a chicken wing, closest to the body.

Coordinate terms

• flat

Related terms

• drumstick

Anagrams

• muttered

English

Etymology

From drum +? stick.

Noun

drumstick (plural drumsticks)

1. A stick used to play drums. [from 16th c.]
2. The second joint of the legbone of a chicken or other fowl, especially as an item of food. [from 17th c.]
3. (India) The moringa or drumstick tree, Moringa oleifera, especially its slender, cylindrical pods. [from 19th c.]
4. (slang, chiefly in the plural) A person's leg.
   • 1855, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Nature and Human Nature (page 235)

     At a given signal, from the boss of the hack, who stands door in hand, the young lady gathers her clothes well up her drumsticks, and would you believe, two steps or springs only, like those of a kangaroo, take her into the house.

Alternative forms

• (stick used to play drums): drum stick

Synonyms

• (chicken): chicken leg, drummer

Coordinate terms

• (chicken): chicken thigh, thigh

Related terms

• (chicken): drumette

Translations

Further reading

• drum stick on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English drumstick.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?dr?m.st?k/
• Hyphenation: drum?stick

Noun

drumstick m (plural drumsticks, diminutive drumstickje n)

1. A drumstick, the lower leg of a fowl (especially a chicken).
2. (uncommon) A drumstick, a stick used for drumming.

   Synonym: drumstok

Hyponyms

• (lower leg of a fowl): kippenpoot