Chou

First, an interesting addition to the last French word: la redevance means, in general, charge/tax/license, but is mostly used in "la redevance télé", a French tax on television sets.

Now on to today's word. un chou = cabbage, as in:

• soupe aux choux = cabbage soup (also happens to be the title of a famous 80's comedy. The IMDB summary says it all "Two buddy farmers are visited by aliens who like their domestic cabbage soup")
• chou farci = stuffed cabbage
• chou de Bruxelles = Brussels sprout
• chou à la crème = cream puff
  

Also an affectionate term meaning dear, darling:

• tu es un chou = you're a little darling
• mon chou = my darling
• which can also be used as an adjective meaning sweet, cute: elle est chou avec son chapeau = she looks so cute in her hat

le chouchou (la chouchoute) means either:

• someone's darling, favorite, e.g. le chouchou du professeur = the teacher's pet
• a scrunchie