Word To Use Today: pettitoes.

 Pettitoes might sound like something you glimpse under the skirts of a Beatrix Potter character:

this is Goody Tiptoes

and, actually, they might be:

Pigling Bland leaving home

for pettitoes are pig's trotters (though usually the word describes them when they've been cooked and are ready to be eaten).

The origin of the word, pleasingly, has nothing whatsoever to do with pigs, but with an entirely different kind of animal.

Can you guess what it might be?

Word To Use Today: pettitoes. The pettit- bit comes from the Old French word petite, which means little. The leaves us with -oes, or oie in Old French, which means, yes, goose. Petite oie means the giblets of a goose. 

I'd guess the change to the word's describing a pig's extremities was probably down to marketing.