noun, masculine/ka.nif/plural: canifs
clasp-knife, penknife
“Et sens la pointe d'un canif Me percer le cœur je luis dis "Petite je te sors ce soir, ok ?"”
Related: donner un coup de canif dans le contrat
Inherited from Middle French quenif, from Middle English knyf (“knife”), from Old English cnīf (“knife”) (however also derived from Late Vulgar Latin *cnifus, if not reinforced), from Old Norse kníf or Proto-West Germanic *knīb, from Proto-Germanic *knībaz (“knife”). Akin to Old French cnivet, canivet (“little knife”), Catalan ganivet (“knife”), from Frankish *knīf (“knife”), from the same Germanic source. More at knife.