clafoutis

First recorded in 1925-30; from French dialect (central) clafoutis, clafouti ; further origin uncertain; perhaps a blend of dialectal clafir, claufir “to cover, fill, scatter, strew or decorate with ornaments,” from Old French “to nail, fix with nails,” from Latin clāvō figere “to fasten with a nail” (equivalent to clāvō, ablative singular of clāvus + figere ) and foutis, noun use of foutis, simple past of foutre “to have intercourse (with)”; see fouter