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Vocabulary

cabbage; baby, darling, sweetheart (term of endearment)

Noun

cute, endearing

Adjective

term of endearment (like petit chou, mon chou); blue-eyed boy, teacher's pet (student perceived to be favored by the teacher); a hair scrunchie, scrunchy; chayote; candied peanut

Noun

chou de Siam

synonym of chou-rave (“kohlrabi”)

Noun

chou de Chine

synonym of colocase (“taro”); synonym of chou chinois (“Chinese cabbage”)

Noun

chouette

great, cool, swell

Adjective

chouette

owl (specifically, those species of owls without ear tufts; those with ear tufts are hiboux)

Noun

chouette

Exclamation when one learns of something pleasing

Interjection

choucroute

sauerkraut (a dish made by fermenting finely chopped cabbage)

Noun

chouiner

to cry, to whine, to whinge; to complain, whine

Verb

chouchouter

to spoil, pamper

Verb

chouan

Chouan

Adjective

choupi

cute

Adjective

chouïa

little, bit

Adverb

chouquette

chouquette (a small choux pastry made with dough sprinkled with sugar)

Noun

choucas

jackdaw (bird of the genus Coloeus)

Noun

chourer

to steal

Verb

chouannerie

counterrevolution

Noun

chouia

brochette, grilled meat

Noun

chouf

lookout (person on watch for approaching enemy, police, danger, etc.)

Noun

choupinou

baby, darling, sweetheart (term of endearment)

Noun

chouf

look!

Interjection

chouchen

a type of mead popular in Brittany

Noun

chouffe

white beer, wheat beer blond beer

Noun

choune

pussy; fanny

Noun

chouraver

to nick, pinch (steal)

Verb

chourave

theft

Noun

chourave

stolen

Adjective

chouré

hot, stolen

Adjective

choupi

cutie

Noun

chousse

stump

Noun

choupique

bowfin, mudfish, grindle, cypress trout

Noun

chouriner

to knife, stab

Verb

chou-rave

kohlrabi (cabbage cultivar)

Noun

chou rouge

red cabbage

Noun

chou-fleur

cauliflower

Noun

choupisson

baby hedgehog

Noun

chou frisé

curly kale

Noun

chou chinois

Chinese cabbage; bok choy (Brassica rapa subsp. chinensis); napa cabbage (Brassica rapa subsp. pekinensis)

Noun

chouinegomme

chewing gum

Noun

chouettement

really well

Adverb

chou de chien

synonym of mercuriale annuelle (“annual mercury”) (Mercurialis annua); synonym of mercuriale vivace (“dog's mercury”) (Mercurialis perennis); An unidentified type of cabbage

Noun

chouette rayée

barred owl (Strix varia)

Noun

chouette lapone

great grey owl, Lapland owl (Strix nebulosa)

Noun

chou à la crème

cream puff

Noun

chouette boréale

boreal owl, Tengmalm's owl, Richardson's owl (Aegolius funereus, syn. Nyctala tengmalmi)