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Poirot

/pwa.ʁo/

proper noun/pwa.ʁo/

Poirot: a surname transferred from the given name

Related: de Poirot, De Poirot, DePoirot, dePoirot, Depoirot

Middle French Poirot. From a variant of Pierrot: Pierre (“Peter”) + -ot (equivalent of the English Petey, Pete.)