Definitions for talapoins

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talapoins tal·a·poin

Spelling: [tal-uh-poin]

IPA: /ˈtæl əˌpɔɪn/

Talapoins is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 637 anagrams from letters in talapoins (aailnopst).

Definitions for talapoins

noun

1. a small, yellowish guenon monkey, Micropithecus (Cercopithecus) talapoin, of western Africa.

Origin of talapoins

1580-90; French, special use (orig. jocular) of talapoin Buddhist monk Mon tɔelaʔ pian (written tīla puin) Buddha, literally, the Lord of Merit (Old Mon tirlaaʾ lord + Pali puñña merit)

Examples for talapoins

A talapoin says, that Fo was a holy man, whose doctrine the bonzes have corrupted, and that Sammonocodom is the true God.