chipoter
French, verb/ʃi.pɔ.te/
chipoter is spelled C-H-I-P-O-T-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 51,352nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chipoter is a French verb meaning “to nibble” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Manger avec réticence ou bouderie ; faire le difficile devant un aliment”.
What does chipoter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to nibble
- 2
to quibble, haggle
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Manger avec réticence ou bouderie ; faire le difficile devant un aliment. 2. Faire des difficultés pour des riens, ergoter, marchander d’une façon mesquine. Donner à regret ou partiellement. 3. Se disputer, se quereller. 4. Tergiverser.
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 chipoter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- chipotant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- chipoté participle past
- chipote first-person indicative present
- chipotes indicative present second-person
- chipotons first-person indicative plural
- chipotez indicative plural present
- chipotent indicative plural present
- chipotais first-person imperfect indicative
- chipotait imperfect indicative singular
- chipotions first-person imperfect indicative
- chipotiez imperfect indicative plural
- chipotaient imperfect indicative plural
- chipotai first-person historic indicative
- chipotas historic indicative past
- chipota historic indicative past
- chipotâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce chipoter?
- /ʃi.pɔ.te/
- \ʃi.pɔ.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 chipoter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is chipoter in French?
chipoter appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).