Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An annual Asian plant (Cicer arietinum) in the pea family, widely cultivated for the edible seeds in its short inflated pods.
- n. A seed of this plant.
Wiktionary
- n. An annual Asian plant (Cicer arietinum) in the pea family, widely cultivated for the edible seeds in its short inflated pods.
- n. A seed of this plant, often used as a food.
Etymologies
- French pois chiche, from pois ("pea") + chiche, from Latin cicer ("chickpea") (Wiktionary)
- Obsolete chichpease : Middle English chiche, chickpea (from Old French, from Latin cicer) + pease, pea; see pea. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I love chickpeas, plus the word chickpea is as cute as it gets.”
“Batata Vada is the ball of potato dipped in chickpea batter and fried in hot peanut oil.”
“Mashed potatoes spiced right and dipped in chickpea flour that coats the ball of potates in a thin coat.”
“Dee of Ammalu's Kitchen transforms plain chickpea flour into a steaming hot bowl of Methi Pitla with the addition of a handful of aromatic methi leaves.”
“Easycrafts makes a saatvic chole that look nice and creamy and the secret in chickpea flour.”
“It sold tea and coffee and well as Maggi noodles; and get this, "Maggi pakodas", fried snacks using cooked maggi noodles dunked in chickpea batter (instead of the usual veggies)!”
“The name chickpea traces back through the French chiche to Latin cicer (from which the Roman cognomen Cicero was taken).”
“I am going for a picnic tonight, and have been dreaming all day about some kind of chickpea salad, maybe with garlic and zested lemon.”
“Hindi for "chickpea," masala simply translates to chickpeas with a spicy mixture.”
“I'd serve this as an aperitif, with savory starters such as chickpea fries or a mushroom tart.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘chickpea’.
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Love Across Kingdoms
Appendix of sorts to AIC, listing plants named with reference to animals and vice versa.
duck potato, hog plum, sorrel mare, horse aloe, horse chestnut, banana slug, tiger lily, buffalo grass, tuna fruit, monkey puzzle, bull kelp, hawkweed and 133 more...
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Butter Beans and Snaps
List of as many pea and bean varieties as I can cook up - mostly common names.
field peas, butter beans, snap peas, lima beans, crowder peas, haricots verts, string bean, green bean, pole bean, navy bean, white acre peas, zipper pea and 186 more...
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food collection
bread, peel, pot, chorizo, Filet, olive, fill, Phyllo, dough, bake, mat, pinot and 988 more...
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Hummus
Ingredients, variations, folklore, things (and people) to eat it with, etc.
hommus, tahini, lemon juice, sweet paprika, hummus, celery stick, mushroom, bagel, ruzuzu, salt, olive, garlic and 41 more...
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Cicero
Works, ideas, friends, Romans, countrymen, &c.
Cicero, Marcus Tullius Ci..., Tully, Antikythera mecha..., lorem ipsum, chickpea, cicer, Terentia, Tullia, Publilia, Atticus, Marcus Tullius Ci... and 23 more...
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Foodie
As much fun to say as they are to eat.
blueberry, cider, almond, apricot, asparagus, banana, fudge, foldover, flapjacks, filbert, fig, biscuit and 217 more...
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jagosaurus's favorites
Words I like mostly because of the way they sound and feel.
ticonderoga, petulance, snark, estimable, chickahominy, feline, gezellig, gneiss, shit, willy-nilly, shelter, coda and 366 more...
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chickpea's list
erotimation, chickpea, hummus, halal, pita, biryani, garbanzo bean, cicero
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Compounds That Look Freakish
You know who you are, freakish compounds. Though very useful, some of these words just don't seem right together--or, their meanings are so far from what the two (or more) component words suggest t...
nightjar, bullfinch, grassquit, bananaquit, ovenbird, waxwing, stonechat, wheatear, bushtit, wrentit, starthroat, godwit and 158 more...
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Hedgepiglet
Words for things both tangible and nonanthropic
rorqual, vellus, wrasse, rainbow bee-eater, tinkershire, lemonquat, boomslang, tufted vetch, cubeb, nipplefruit, madapple, wad and 447 more...
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Some Words I Love to Use
arcology, strumpet, crux, confected, pedant, bluestocking, cogitation, incensed, lovecraftian, cygnet, dactyl, adytum and 539 more...
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One more switchback
Tip of the hat to Stephen, who always tells me "only one more switchback" as we go up the trail. Usually it is a lie, but it still works!
switchback, heavens to murgat..., prosody, catarrh, ice storm, existential, predicament, intermingle, comingle, stolid, zeitgeist, bibliophage and 146 more...
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Amusing words
interesting words
bonce, furcate, tapioca, tillage, desalinate, garish, litmus, roadhog, azoic, haberdasher, imbroglio, polliwog and 802 more...
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the favourites
These are words that I like; either because they sound amazing, mean pretty things, seem particularly suited to their assigned definition, or just have good mouthfeel. The best ones embody some com...
tatterdemalion, alpenglow, dapple, defenestrate, wacky, lissom, lithe, whisper, madcap, magniloquent, whimsy, sallow and 208 more...
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encyclopedia gustatorica
béchamel, tart, pie, cupcake, roux, jambalaya, étouffé, succulent, plum, pomegranate, peach, apple and 300 more...
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"My Little _____"
Endearments too cute and/or funny to ignore.
chickpea, piglet, mon chi chi, gummi bear, poochie, sweetpea, stud muffin, sweetcakes, fuckbunny, chubchub, pookie, snugger and 38 more...
Tweets
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seanahan With tahini, the main ingredient in hummus. Feb 20, 2007