Cancan

Cancan is an ungraceful dance, something of the nature of a quadrille, but accompanied by violent leaps and indecorous contortions of the body, practised in French dancing-saloons. The earlier and usual meaning of the word in French is noise, racket, scandal; and is derived, oddly enough, from the Latin conjunction quamquam, 'although'—a great squabble having arisen in the French medieval law-schools as to the pronunciation of this word.