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.” CHOUFRETEZ (Breton), _lucifer matches_. CHOUIA (military), _gently_. From the Arabic. CHOUIL (Breton), _work_; _insect_. 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. =RICHEPIN=, _Chanson des Gueux_. CHOURINER, for SURINER (thieves’), _to knife_, “to chive.” CHOURINEUR, _m._, for SURINEUR (thieves’), _one who uses the knife_; _knacker_. “Le Chourineur” is one of the characters of Eugène Sue’s _Mystères de Paris_. C’HOUSA (Breton), _to eat_. C’HOUSACH (Breton), _food_. CHRÉTIEN, _adj._ (popular), _mixed with water_, “baptized.” CHRÉTIEN, _m._ (popular), viande de ----, _human flesh_. CHRYSALIDE, _f._ (popular), _old coquette_. CHTIBES, _f. pl._ (popular), _boots_, “hock-dockies.” CHYBRE, _m._ (popular), see FLAGEOLET; (artists’) _member of the Institut de France_. CHYLE, _m._ (familiar), se refaire le ----, _to have a good meal_, a “tightener.” CIBICHE, _f._ (popular), _cigarette_. CIBLE, _f._ (popular), à coups de pieds, _breech_. See VASISTAS. CIBOULE, _f._ (popular), _head_, or “block.” See TRONCHE. CIDRE ÉLÉGANT, _m._ (familiar), _champagne_, “fiz,” or “boy.” CIEL, _m._ (fishermens’), le ---- plumant ses poules, _clouds_.