mâchouiller
French, verb\mɑ.ʃu.je\
mâchouiller is spelled M-Â-C-H-O-U-I-L-L-E-R (11 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written French, the 102,288th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mâchouiller is a French verb meaning “to chew, chomp” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mastiquer sans ingurgiter de manière répétitive et négligente”.
What does mâchouiller mean in English?
verb
- 1
to chew, chomp
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Mastiquer sans ingurgiter de manière répétitive et négligente. 2. Mordre doucement de manière répétitive et négligente. 3. Dire quelque chose en prononçant mal.
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 mâchouiller
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- mâchouillant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- mâchouillé participle past
- mâchouille first-person indicative present
- mâchouilles indicative present second-person
- mâchouillons first-person indicative plural
- mâchouillez indicative plural present
- mâchouillent indicative plural present
- mâchouillais first-person imperfect indicative
- mâchouillait imperfect indicative singular
- mâchouillions first-person imperfect indicative
- mâchouilliez imperfect indicative plural
- mâchouillaient imperfect indicative plural
- mâchouillai first-person historic indicative
- mâchouillas historic indicative past
- mâchouilla historic indicative past
- mâchouillâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mâchouiller?
- \mɑ.ʃu.je\
- \ma.ʃu.je\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is mâchouiller in French?
mâchouiller appears about once in every 10 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).