chuinter
French, verb/ʃɥɛ̃.te/
chuinter is spelled C-H-U-I-N-T-E-R (8 letters). Chuinter is a French verb meaning “to hoot, screech” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Pousser le cri particulier à son espèce, en parlant de la chouette”.
What does chuinter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to hoot, screech
- 2
to buzz, whirr, whoosh
- 3
to creak
- 4
to swish
- 5
to hiss
- 6
to pronounce the phoneme s as ʃ, often seen as a speech defect or regionalism. Can be compared to lisping in the English language.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Pousser le cri particulier à son espèce, en parlant de la chouette. 2. Prononcer certaines consonnes, notamment s, avec un son fricatif qui évoque le son ch français (x portugais ou catalan, x ou s basque, sh anglais, sch allemand). 3. Produire une sorte de sifflement assourdi qui rappelle cette prononciation.
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 chuinter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- chuintant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- chuinté participle past
- chuinte first-person indicative present
- chuintes indicative present second-person
- chuintons first-person indicative plural
- chuintez indicative plural present
- chuintent indicative plural present
- chuintais first-person imperfect indicative
- chuintait imperfect indicative singular
- chuintions first-person imperfect indicative
- chuintiez imperfect indicative plural
- chuintaient imperfect indicative plural
- chuintai first-person historic indicative
- chuintas historic indicative past
- chuinta historic indicative past
- chuintâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce chuinter?
- /ʃɥɛ̃.te/
- \ʃɥɛ̃.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.