Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as chico.
- n. The mucilaginous seeds of Sterculia Chica, a South American tree. See Sterculia.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. See chica.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water
Etymologies
- From Spanish chicha, from a Haitian language. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The corn has long been used to make a beer called chicha, which is drunk especially during ritual or political activities.”
“One day when they had been at work, on returning to their hut, they found in it some small loaves of bread, and a jar of chicha, which is the beverage used in this country in place of wine, made of boiled maize.”
“The people, as I have said, are very polished and intelligent, and go always clad and shod; they eat maize both cooked and raw, and drink much chicha, which is a beverage made from maize after the fashion of beer.”
“Their beverage, called chicha -- a name common throughout”
The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America
“It´s essentially chicken stew mixed with a type of maize alcohol called chicha - it tastes disgusting by itself but the food was not bad, even with my contribution!”
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“Over the last several millennia it's been popped like popcorn, made into flour, brewed into beer (known as chicha blanca), and boiled like rice.”
“Elsewhere, "Adigbedoto" by Gnonnas Pedro glides on reverb-sozzled guitars that seem to owe as much to the Peruvian pop-rock style known as chicha as it does to any Beninese tradition.”
“In one episode Mr. Calagione learns to make a fermented corn drink called chicha from a group of elderly women in Peru.”
“Andrea splits her time between agriculture and making a Peruvian drink called chicha in her house.”
“Â Both the hypocotyl and the leaves are used and can be fermented to produce a weak beer called chicha de maca.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘chicha’.
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Open List: The World of Corn
Corn-related words and phrases. This versatile crop is so important to cultures and economies - from most basic indigenous foodstuff and animal feed to source of biopolymer and biofuel.
seed corn, field corn, flint corn, sweet corn, biofuel, biopolymer, corn starch, modified corn starch, cornstarch, cornflour, polylactic acid, citric acid and 390 more...
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The Whiteness of the Whale
Words in Melville's "Moby Dick"
grapnels, spile, pea coffee, farrago, grego, bosky, bombazine, brevet, cenotaph, cupidity, kelson, obliquity and 164 more...
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Moby-Dick
Interesting words and usages.
hypo, spile, hunks, grapnel, squitchy, skrimshander, monkey jacket, direful, grego, wrapall, dreadnaught, bosky and 158 more...
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Interesting Foods
smelt, sprat, caviar, sushi, papadum, garlic naan, injera, doro wat, miso, pho, edamame, tataki and 170 more...
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Liquor is Quicker
Fermented and distilled.
usquebaugh, whisky, malt whisky, grain whisky, bourbon, scotch, gin, vodka, brandy, cognac, Armagnac, Pisco and 71 more...
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Fermentations
fermented foods from all cultures
beer, tempeh, bread, kefir, yoghurt, langfil, bouza, sauerkraut, choucroute, kimchi, vinegar, kumis and 11 more...
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Smoke 'Em If You've Got 'Em
calumet, hookah, meerschaum, narghile, bowl, dudeen, hubble-bubble, kalian, calabash, chibouk, corncob pipe, chillum and 5 more...
Tweets
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yarb "'I see! I see!' impetuously exclaimed Don Pedro, spilling his chicha upon his silvery ruffles."
- Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 54 Jul 25, 2008
yarb I had this recently; I can't say it blew me away. Nov 26, 2007
chained_bear Yeah, fermented corn. Wiggy! Nov 25, 2007
mikeropology also, a pre-conquest fermented beverage native to South America. Nov 25, 2007