CHOLETTE, _f._ (thieves’), _half a litre_. Double ----, _a litre_.
CHOPER (popular), _to steal_, “to prig.” See GRINCHIR. Old word choper, _to touch anything_, _to make it fall_. Se laisser ----, _to allow oneself to be caught_, _to be_ “nabbed.”
CHOPIN, _m._ (thieves’), _theft_; _stolen object_; _blow_. Faire un ----, _to commit a theft_.
CHOSE, _adj._ (familiar and popular), _ill at ease_; _sad_; _embarrassed_. Il prit un air ----, _he looked sad or embarrassed_. Je me sens tout ----, _I feel ill at ease_; _queer_.
CHOU! (thieves’ and cads’), _a warning cry to intimate that the police or people are coming up_. Termed also “Acresto!”
CHOUCARDE, _f._ (military), _wheelbarrow_.
CHOUCHOUTER (familiar), _to fondle_, “to firkytoodle;” _to spoil one_. From chouchou, _darling_.
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_.
CHOUFFLIQUEUR, _m._ (popular), _bad workman_; (military) _shoemaker_, “snob.”
CHOUIA (military), _gently_. From the Arabic.
CHOUILA (Breton cant), _to work_; _to beget many children_.
CHOUISTA (Breton), _to work with a will_.
CHOUMAQUE (popular), _shoemaker_. From the German.
CHOURIN, for SURIN (thieves’), _knife_, “chive.”
Si j’ai pas l’rond, mon surin bouge. Moi, c’est dans le sang qu’ j’aurais truqué. Mais quand on fait suer, pomaqué! Mieux vaut bouffer du blanc qu’ du rouge.
CHOURINER, for SURINER (thieves’), _to knife_, “to chive.”