COQUECIGRUE

an imaginary creature regarded as an embodiment of absolute absurdity. Franois Rabelais in Gargantua uses the phrase la venue des cocquecigrues to mean never. Charles Kingsley in The Water Babies has the fairy Bedonebyasyoudid report that there are seven things he is forbidden to tell until the coming of the Cocqcigrues. The word is of French origin.