chouette

• IPA^(key): /ʃwɛt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛt

From Old French çuete, diminutive of choë, cauwe, from Vulgar Latin *cawa or from Old Dutch *kāwa ‘jackdaw’ (compare Dutch kauw, English chough), from Proto-Germanic *kahwō, from Proto-Indo-European *geh₁(i)- ‘sing’.

chouette f (plural chouettes)

1. owl (specifically, an owl without a crest)

• chouette chevêche
• chouette effraie
• chouette hulotte

• 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 le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).