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noun, masculine

moignon

/mwa.ɲɔ̃/

noun, masculine/mwa.ɲɔ̃/plural: moignons

stump (of limb); stub (of tail)

Inherited from Middle French, from the noun moing (“something crippled, mutilated”), of uncertain origin, possibly a pre-Roman substrate borrowing *munnio, *munno (“blunt”).