ventouse

Possibly continuing Middle English ventouse, ventuse, ventose, a borrowing from Anglo-Norman ventuse; or perhaps a reborrowing directly from French ventouse, or both.

ventouse (plural ventouses)

1. (obsolete) A cupping glass.
2. (medicine) A suction cup like device used on a baby's head to assist in difficult childbirths

ventouse (third-person singular simple present ventouses, present participle ventousing, simple past and past participle ventoused)

1. (obsolete) To cup; to use a cupping glass.

• seven out

From Middle French ventouse, from Old French ventuse, ellipsis of Medieval Latin [cucurbita] ventōsa. Doublet of venteux and ventôse.

• IPA^(key): /vɑ̃.tuz/

ventouse f (plural ventouses)

1. plunger
2. suction cup
3. cup for fire cupping
4. ventouse
5. (biology) sucker
6. (slang) sucker (a person who sucks; a general term of disparagement)

ventouse

1. first-person singular present indicative of ventouser
2. third-person singular present indicative of ventouser
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of ventouser
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of ventouser
5. second-person singular imperative of ventouser

• “ventouse” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• envoutes, envoûtes