Chou colossal, m. (familiar), a scheme for swindling the public by fabulous accounts of future profits.
Choucroute, f. (popular), tête or mangeur de ——, a German.
Choucrouter (popular), to eat sauerkraut; to speak German.
Choucrouteur, choucroutmann, m., German.
Chouette, chouettard, chouettaud, adj., good; fine; perfect, “chummy,” “real jam,” “true marmalade.” C’est rien ——, that’s first-class! Quel —— temps, what splendid weather! Un —— régiment, a crack regiment. (Disparagingly) Nous sommes ——, we are in a fine pickle.
Chouette, f. and adj. (thieves’), être ——, to be caught. Faire une ——, to play at billiards against two other players.
Chouettement (popular), finely; perfectly.
Chouez (Breton), house; —— doue, church.
Choufflic (popular), bad workman. In the German schuflick, cobbler.
Chouffliquer (popular), to work in a clumsy manner.