Coquecigrue

An imaginary creature regarded as an embodiment of absolute absurdity. Fran�ois 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.