Abstract
In a study first published in 2002, Vasile Arvinte, a linguist from Iaşi, claimed that the form checocuri, from a well-known sketch by I. L. Caragiale, might mean “cocktails” and that it could be explained by a French playful compound *queue- coq (from queue “tail” and coq “cock”), invented ad-hoc by the Romanian writer (therefore, not attested as such in French), based on the English cocktail (composed of cock and tail). We have all reasons to doubt the accuracy of the analysis proposed by Vasile Arvinte. In this contribution we will try to argue that, in this case, another “connection” is required, namely with a dance name, cake-walk (in approximate phonetic transcription: keik-wok). According to the data presented and our interpretation, checocuri apilpisite means “dishevelled, unravelled dances [= cake-walks]”.
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