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chien de traîneau: sled dog (any dog, such as a husky, that pulls a sled as part of a team)
chien errant: stray dog
chien guide d'aveugle: guide dog, seeing-eye dog
chien hargneux a toujours l'oreille déchirée: an aggressive person will inevitably get themselves hurt
chien policier: police dog
chien qui aboie ne mord pas: barking dogs seldom bite, one's bark is worse than one's bite, all talk no bite
chien tayau: mutt
chien à perdrix: bird-dog, a dog that specializes in bird hunting
chien-garou: weredog
chien-loup: wolf dog
chienchien: doggy (usually addressing a single dog, chiefly used in the plural)
chiendent: couch grass, quackgrass; weed (unwanted plant that is difficult to eradicate)
chienlit: repugnant person; someone in a carnival mask
chienlit: masquerade, carnival; havoc, chaos
chiennaille: pack of dogs; rascals, scoundrels
chienne: female equivalent of chien (“bitch, female dog”); a bitch (objectionable woman); a whore; a prostitute; overalls (shortening of chienne de travail); fear
chiennerie: a large group of dogs; things relating to dogs; an immodest act; avarice; an untenable situation
chiens écrasés: dead donkey
chier: to shit, defecate
chier comme tout le monde: to be imperfect, like everyone else (literally, to shit like everyone)
chier dans son froc: to shit oneself (to be very afraid)
chier une pendule: to overreact, to lose one's temper for nothing
chierie: a piece of crap, piece of shit
chieur: a pain in the arse (person who is irritating)
chiffe: rag; drip (person of weak character)
chiffe molle: pansy
chiffon: rag; scrap
chiffonnade: a shredded food (especially ham)
chiffonnage: creasing; crumpling
chiffonnement: crumple; crease
chiffonner: to crumple, crease; to bother, to perplex
chiffonnier: rag-gatherer; chiffonier (item of furniture)
chiffonné: creased; wizened; bothered
chiffrable: quantifiable; computable
chiffrage: numbering; ciphering
chiffre: a digit i.e. 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9; a number; figure (number); cipher (method of transforming a text to conceal meaning); cipher (code)
chiffre arabe: Arabic numeral
chiffre d'affaires: revenue, turnover, net sales
chiffre romain: Roman numeral (a numeral represented by letters)
chiffrement: encryption (process of obscuring information to make it unreadable without special knowledge, key files, and/or passwords)
chiffrer: to number (to add a number to); to add up (accumulate); to cipher, to encipher, to encrypt (add a cipher to, for protection)
chiffreur: cipherer; encryption method
chifoumi: rock paper scissors
chigner: to whine, moan, complain, or grumble in a childish manner. (followed by de to mean "about")
chignole: brace (bitstock)
chignon: roll or twist of hair worn at the nape of the neck; a bun
chihuahua: Chihuahua / chihuahua (the dog breed or an individual of this breed)
chiisme: Shi'ism (branch of Islam)
chiite: Shiite
chiite: Shiite
chik: clipping of chikungunya
chikungunya: chikungunya
chili: chili, chili con carne
chili con carne: chili con carne
chiliade: chiliad, a group of 1000 things
chiliarque: chiliarch
chiliasme: chiliasm (belief in an earthly thousand-year period of peace and prosperity)
chilien: Chilean (of, from or relating to Chile)
chilienne: deck chair (usually quite basic and without a footrest)
chiliogone: chiliagon