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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Conforming to the current fashion; stylish: chic clothes; a chic boutique.
  2. adj. Adopting or setting current fashions and styles; sophisticated: chic, well-dressed young executives. See Synonyms at fashionable.
  3. n. The quality or state of being stylish; fashionableness.
  4. n. Sophistication in dress and manner; elegance.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Stylish; effective in style.
  2. n. In the fine arts, the faculty of producing effective works with rapidity and ease; cleverness and skill combined with great facility.
  3. n. Parisian elegance and fashionableness combined with originality: said of fashion in dress.
  4. n. Adroitness; cunning; knowingness.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. stylish; elegant
  2. n. Good form; style.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. colloq. Original and in good taste or form; stylish; in current fashion, fashionable.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. elegant and stylish
  2. n. elegance by virtue of being fashionable

Etymologies

  1. 1855, from French chic, from German schick ("elegance, tact, style, skill"), from Middle High German schicken ("to outfit oneself, fit in, arrange appropriately"), causative of Middle High German geschehen, geschēn ("to happen, rush") from Old High German giskehan ("to happen") from Proto-Germanic *skehanan (“to run, move quickly”), from Proto-Indo-European *skek- (“to run, jump, spring”). Akin to Old English scēon ("to happen"), Dutch schielijk ("hasty"). (Wiktionary)
  2. French, probably from German Schick, skill, fitness, elegance, from Middle High German (sich) schicken, to outfit (oneself), fit in. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • rolig The standard pronunciation (modeled on the original French) is "sheek". When someone says "chick" to mean "stylish", I assume the person has never connected the spelling c-h-i-c with the word they have always heard pronounced as "sheek". Sep 22, 2008

  • cricket They all sound too close to a certain unnamed noun which is a synonym to "poo." Mar 2, 2008

  • uselessness I prefer sheikh. Sep 28, 2007

  • kewpid Do you prefer "shick" or "chick"? I like the former, it sounds more sophistimicated. Sep 28, 2007

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