{"id":9287,"date":"2013-10-19T15:21:45","date_gmt":"2013-10-19T15:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=9287"},"modified":"2013-10-19T15:21:45","modified_gmt":"2013-10-19T15:21:45","slug":"do-you-cahoot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=9287","title":{"rendered":"Do you cahoot?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When looking through one of my dictionaries today I came across the word <strong>cahoot<\/strong>, which I&#8217;ve only seen before in the form cahoots, as in the expression &#8216;in cahoots with&#8217;, i.e. to be in partnership or in league with. The dictionary entry has the s in bracketts &#8211; cahoot(s) &#8211; so it seems this words can be used in the singular as well. Have you heard it used like that, or do you use it like that?<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oed.com\/view\/Entry\/26071?rskey=mv085K&#038;result=1&#038;isAdvanced=false#eid\">OED<\/a>, cahoot can also be used as a verb meaning &#8216;to act in partnership&#8217;. The following example is given, &#8216;They all agree to cahoot with their claims against Nicaragua and Costa Rica.&#8217;, which dates from 1857, so I suspect this might not be a contemporary use of the word, though I may be wrong. <\/p>\n<p>The OED also states that cahoot is &#8216;Used in the South and West [of the USA] to denote a company, or partnership&#8217;, usually in the plural.<\/p>\n<p>Cahoot either comes from the French <em>cahute<\/em> (cabin; poor hut), or from <em>cohorte<\/em>, from the Latin <em>cohort<\/em> (court, enclosure, company of soldiers).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When looking through one of my dictionaries today I came across the word cahoot, which I&#8217;ve only seen before in the form cahoots, as in the expression &#8216;in cahoots with&#8217;, i.e. to be in partnership or in league with. The dictionary entry has the s in bracketts &#8211; cahoot(s) &#8211; so it seems this words [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,107,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-etymology","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}