chiquer
French, verb/ʃi.ke/
chiquer is spelled C-H-I-Q-U-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 16 million words in written French, the 130,697th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chiquer is a French verb meaning “to chew tobacco” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mâcher du tabac en feuilles”.
What does chiquer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to chew tobacco
- 2
to chew gum
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Mâcher du tabac en feuilles. 2. Mâcher un produit végétal, sans l’avaler. 3. Mâcher un chewing-gum.
verb: 1. Se battre. 2. Discuter, chicaner. 3. Comprendre. 4. Nier jusqu’aux évidences.
verb: 1. Peindre d'une manière artificielle, sans sincérité. 2. Feindre, jouer un personnage, une scène. 3. Exécuter avec chic.
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 chiquer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- chiquant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- chiqué participle past
- chique first-person indicative present
- chiques indicative present second-person
- chiquons first-person indicative plural
- chiquez indicative plural present
- chiquent indicative plural present
- chiquais first-person imperfect indicative
- chiquait imperfect indicative singular
- chiquions first-person imperfect indicative
- chiquiez imperfect indicative plural
- chiquaient imperfect indicative plural
- chiquai first-person historic indicative
- chiquas historic indicative past
- chiqua historic indicative past
- chiquâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce chiquer?
- /ʃi.ke/
- \ʃi.ke\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to chiquer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is chiquer in French?
chiquer appears about once in every 16 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).