Citations:tchoc

onomatopoeia

 * 1987, Ronald Lavallée, Tchipayuk, ou, le Chemin du Loup, page 183:
 * Enfin, un dernier brouhaha laissa supposer que le Conseil se dissolvait.
 * Quelques instants plus tard, Pennisk et Askik entendirent un tchoc ! sourd au-dessus de leurs têtes. S'arrachant un moment à ses prières, la vieillarde leva la main vers les branches du toit. Ses doigts tâtèrent la tête d'une flèche ...

bird

 * 1999 February 6, "Unecadjine" (username), Expression du jour #6, in
 * They are not the lone species to imbibe, since the expression "soûl comme un tchoc" (as drunk as a blackbird) is also common in LF.
 * 2001, Lorraine Johnson-Coleman, Larissa's breadbook: baking bread and telling tales with women of the American South, page 238
 * mais well, but
 * mon Dieu my God
 * mon 'ti bebe my little baby
 * perdu comme un tchoc dans le brouillard lost like a bird in a fog
 * poo-yie wow! or oh!
 * soeur sister
 * tante aunt.
 * 2010, Dictionary of Louisiana French: As Spoken in Cajun, Creole, and American Indian Communities (senior editor Albert Valdman, associate editor Kevin J. Rottet, assistant editors Barry Jean Ancelet, Richard Guidry, Thomas A. Klingler, Amanda LaFleur, Tamara Lindner, Michael D. Picone and Dominique Ryon):
 * tchoc1 (choc, choque) [tʃɔk, tʃak] n.m. 1 blackbird 2 any of various birds with dark plumage tchoc aux ailes rouges / choc alle rouge redwing blackbird &lt;Guoo, LV88, Re31&gt;