cahoter
French, verb/ka.ɔ.te/
cahoter is spelled C-A-H-O-T-E-R (7 letters). Cahoter is a French verb meaning “to bump, jolt” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Secouer par des cahots”.
What does cahoter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to bump, jolt
- 2
to jolt along, bounce along
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Secouer par des cahots. 2. Éprouver des cahots.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of cahoter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- cahotant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- cahoté participle past
- cahote first-person indicative present
- cahotes indicative present second-person
- cahotons first-person indicative plural
- cahotez indicative plural present
- cahotent indicative plural present
- cahotais first-person imperfect indicative
- cahotait imperfect indicative singular
- cahotions first-person imperfect indicative
- cahotiez imperfect indicative plural
- cahotaient imperfect indicative plural
- cahotai first-person historic indicative
- cahotas historic indicative past
- cahota historic indicative past
- cahotâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cahoter?
- /ka.ɔ.te/
- \ka.ɔ.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cahoter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.