The French dictionary Le Petit Robert is expanding its linguistic repertoire with the integration of 150 new words including “Tchip” and “Tchiper”, for its 2025 edition, scheduled for May 16.
In this new version, the word “Tchip” as well as the verb “Tchiper” are given a place in this prestigious dictionary, known as a reference in the French language.
The precise definition of “Tchip”, originating from Africa and the Antilles, is as follows: “Male name, onomatopoeia; action of emitting a sucking sound as a sign of disapproval or contempt.”
This update of the Le Petit Robert dictionary includes nearly 150 new words and meanings which enrich the approximately 60,000 entries already present.
Among these contemporary terms, we find words like “tiktoker” (designating a person sharing their own videos on TikTok), as well as words rooted in environmental concerns such as “climaticide”, defined as which, by its massive CO2 emissions , contributes to global warming.
Le Petit Robert also retained the word “decolonialism” with the following definition: “a current of thought of South American origin which postulates that forms of domination (political, economic, ethnic, cultural, etc.) resulting from colonization persist in society.
Let us also remember that the term “afrodescendant”, which designates a person born outside of Africa but who descends from parents or ancestors of African origin, entered Petit Larousse on April 29.
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