chich

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  1. A dwarf pea: same as chick-pea. Her either chiche is sowen in this moone, Ther aier is moist, and lande is ronke and stepe. Palladius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 106. Chiches and the other pulses. B. Googe, Husbandrie, fol. 18 b. Him that buys chiches blanched. B. Jonson, Horace's Art of Poetry.
  2. Niggardly; sparing. Chaucer.
  3. A miser; a niggard. For ther is vch mon payed in-liche, Whether lyttel other much be hys rewarde, For the gentyl cheuentayn is no chyche. Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), i. 604.
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  1. Early modern English also cich; from Middle English chiche, from Old French chiche, French chiche (pois chiche), chick-pea, = Italian cece = Provencal cezer = Spanish Portuguese chicharo = Old High German chihhira, Middle High German G. kicher (cf. Dutch sisererwt, Portuguese cizirão), from Latin cicer, the chich, chick-pea.
  2. Middle English chiche, also chinche, chince, from Old French chiche (masculine properly chic), French chiche, niggardly, miserable, mean, literally ‘small’ (see chicane), = Spanish chico, small. Cf. Italian cica, nothing, from Latin ciccus, a trifle, a thing of no value.
  3. Middle English chichen, assibilated form of chicken, chick, a variant of chuck: see chick, chuck.
 

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