chouette

• IPA^(key): /ʃwɛt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛt

From Middle French chouette, from Old French choete, diminutive from choe (“jackdaw”), from Frankish *kâwa.

chouette f (plural chouettes)

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

• Vernacular category, doesn't correspond to a scientific taxon.

• → Romansch: tschuetta

• hibou

Probably from a confusion between Etymology 1, above, and a derivative of choueter, chou.

chouette (plural chouettes)

1. (informal) great, cool, swell

   Synonym: sympa

chouette

1. (informal) Exclamation when one learns of something pleasing

   Chouette ! On va à la mer cet été ! ― Super! We're going to the sea this summer!

   Des crêpes ? Chouette ! ― Crêpes? Super!

• “chouette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Old French choete.

• IPA^(key): /ʃuɛtə/

chouette f (plural chouettes)

1. owl

• French: chouette

• chouette on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)

chouette

1. alternative form of choete (“owl”)