Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Ostentatiously stylish; deliberately chic.
- n. Ostentatious stylishness.
Wiktionary
- adj. affectedly trendy; chic and stylish
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone who dresses in a trendy fashionable way
- adj. affectedly trendy and fashionable
- n. elegance by virtue of being fashionable
Etymologies
- From French chichi (Wiktionary)
- French. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I enjoyed Gere as Irving, along with Alfred Molina as Irving’s perpetually nervous assistant and Hope Davis as his editor (although I found it unnerving that Davis, dolled up in chichi makeup and hairstyle, looks exactly like Flo — that annoying Progressive Insurance chick!).”
“I've always wanted to sort of poke fun at the symbol of the white box in Chelsea," he said, referring to the chichi galleries typical of the area.”
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“The festive event is held at the embassy for the second time since last year, with drink of "chichi", a pink colored beverage made from corn and gifts such as "matraga", a toy noisemaker and Nicaraguan delicacies like "manjal", a cinnamon flavored milk pudding - a joyful experience of the country's culture and history.”
“- "chichi," on a parody of Leonardo Da Vinci's The Last Supper featuring cartoon characters”
“The chichi Fairmont (411 University St.) up the street, meanwhile, has cheap drink and food specials and “endless cheese” and “endless starters” for $12 each.”
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“People were afraid it would become another chichi winery.”
“And with the new City Center development and the chichi Cosmopolitan Las Vegas hotel, there's never been a better time to go.”
“Soon, though, the sun emerged, making London's streets shine like titanium and warming my walk from Gagosian's gallery in chichi Mayfair to the location in a grittier area near King's Cross.”
“Number Fifteen B&B 0114-327 6875, numberfifteensheffield.co.uk, by the botanical gardens in the city's chichi Westside, has comfortable doubles from £68 B&B.”
“The unhurt put candid, in its chichi quieten, is a youngster of the 20th century”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘chichi’.
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Nahuatl
"Spanish náhuatl, from Nahuatl, that which pleases the ear, from nahua-, audible, intelligent, clear."
- etymology from The American Heritage Dictionary
Nahuatl, Zapotec, Aztec, avocado, guacamole, amole, atlatl, axolotl, black sapote, cacao, cacomistle, chayote and 77 more...
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Style
Words that pertain to style in some way, shape or form.
chichi, uber, food stylist, extraordinaire, la-ti-da, fabulous, chic, selective, adorn, decked out, titivate
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adj. + adv.
vainglorious, lanuginous, altiloquent, ambisextrous, desiderative, flothery, liquescent, logoed, autotelic, tropology, erotogenic, crocky and 108 more...
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Unusual words for Words With Friends
A list of words that WWF recognizes as valid - most are unusual words; some are simply high-scoring.
botel, slipe, jeu, chub, chubs, cote, mure, tittle, dev, loo, hoke, helo and 357 more...
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Dictionary.com Words of the Days of 1999
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emolument, palindrome, deprecate, bivouac, umbrage, incipient, dapple, pugnacious, capitulate, susurrus, thaumaturgy, capacious and 229 more...
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reginaterra's Words
purl, blow, squish, andean, generality, adaptation, lush, pack, filter, acquiesce, abstraction, sweet and 508 more...
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Interesting Scrabble words
Interesting words worth @ least 15 points.
smoochy, zareba, hyphal, djellaba, cloque, pyxidium, qindarka, squiffy, howbeit, chthonic, quinta, azimuthal and 262 more...
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Units Of Language
Word:
-a unit of language consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning.sulk, promenade, skulk, idle, subsequently, moody, paroxysm, felony, anent, generic, hallucinogen, synaesthesia and 215 more...
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Sassypants
The qualities of The Diva. Social skills, playful yet bitchy.
churlish, bitchy, cantankerous, peevish, disagreeable, quarrelsome, venomous, grumpy, groachy, crabby, dismal, snappish and 143 more...
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judith's word inbox
collocated, carnaval, articulate, reticulated, cilia, sardonic, aesthetics, tenacity, tensile, jubilant, ebullient, ethereal and 206 more...
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saigalt's list
Zany & mellifluous
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Isograms
Words with each letter repeated the same number of times. The pattern of repetition is tagged: 1212, 1221, 121122, 122121, 121233, 122133, 123123, 123132, 123213, 123231, 123312, 123321, 12123434, ...
deeded, sestettes, geggee, appeases, caucasus, isis, cancan, intestines, mesosome, palpal, valval, mama and 154 more...
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Toot Toot, Beep Beep!
chichi, tomtom, weewee, poohpooh, tutu, tsetse, ta-ta, peepee, woop woop, ack-ack, ding-ding, bon bon and 44 more...
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trendy words and phrases
teachable moment, tipping point, astroturfing, locavore, aquaculture, tentpole, jag, vom, weaksauce, juggalo, quantitative easing, nymwars and 15 more...
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Charlie
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carbuncle, chimaera, catamite, carphology, chancre, coprolalia, callipygian, concupiscence, coeval, codling, clitic, cojones and 39 more...
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Je parle francais, apparently
All of these were added to my general list before I realized that I have way too much French in my vocabulary.
pamplemousse, auto-da-fe, trebuchet, sangfroid, avoirdupois, chichi, tutoyons, bourgeois, aubergine, bivouac, vichyssoise, touche and 3 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for chichi.
gangerh Sometimes you slay me, bilby. It's a while since I chortled as much as I did reading your comment. Oct 2, 2010
bilby What's Nathuatl for 'dog who was drunk when he put his lippy on'? Oct 2, 2010
fbharjo Nathuatl for 'dog'
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A day sign of the Aztec calendar Oct 2, 2010
super-saigalt I wonder if it can be used with a male ...I always think of a female chichi - for eg- Tiffany's dress is so chichi Mar 9, 2009