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Definition: Chichi |
ChichiAdjective1. Affectedly trendy. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "chichi" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Bengal no chichi laman (1973) Chichi to ko: Zoku Na mo naku mazushiku utsukushiku (1967) Soyokaze chichi to tomo ni (1940) Chichi (1930) | |
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Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | SB2C-1 "Helldiver" bombers return to the carrier after a raid in early July 1944. Photographed by Photographer's Mate First Class O.L. Smith, USNR. Note: The original caption for this photograph, released by Commander in Chief, Pacific, gives the date as 6 July 1944 and identifies the target as Chichi Jima, Bonin Islands, which was actually attacked on 4 June. Edward Steichen's "U.S. Navy War Photographs" identifies the target as Guam. Credit: NAVY. |
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| "Chichi fabric 1" by Mike Berg Commentary: "Fabric found in Chichicastenango, Guatemala." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "chichi": chichi-vache. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "chichi"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | مبهرج (flashy, florid, garish, gaudy, showy, tawdry, tinsel). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ichichay.(various references) | |
Thai | หล่อมาก. (various references) | |
Turkish | yapmacık (affected, artificial, campy, constrained, counterfeit, factitious, false, feigned, genteel, plummy, pretended, put on, rose water, set, shifty, sophisticated, studied, studious, theatrical, unnatural), süslü (arrayed, bombastic, fancy, figurative, florid, flowery, frilly, high-flown, luxuriant, natty, ornate), gösterişli (artsy, Arty, arty-crafty, baronial, bombastic, dashing, declamatory, dressy, flamboyant, flash, flashily, flashy, flatulent, Flossy, garish, gingerbread, glossy, meretricious, Nobby, ostentatious, polished, posh, showy, sleek, smart, spectacular, splendent, sporty, swanky, swish, thoroughbred, viewy). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "chichi": chichis. (additional references) | |
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"Chichi" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bhichai, Bhikhu, chach, chache, chachem, chachi, Chadha, Chashnik, chech, cheche, Cheech, Chepchuk, chhish, Chiah, Chiche, Chichen, chiches, Chichewa, chichis, chichit, chichli, Chihuio, Chilhac, Chilham, chirche, chirho, chish, Chishti, choch, Chochol, choochie, choochy, chuch, Chuchu, Chuichi, ciechi, clichy, kekchi, kich, Kichik, kimchi, Kuichi, Schiach, Schicchi, Schichau, shchi, Tikhii. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "chichi" (pronounced khē"khē) |
| 3 | -ē" kh ē | Beachy, beechy, peachy, preachy. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-h-h-i-i" | |
-2 letters: chic. | |
-3 letters: chi, hic, ich. | |
-4 letters: hi. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-h-h-i-i" | |
+1 letter: chichis. | |
+2 letters: ichthyic. | |
+3 letters: chinchier. | |
+4 letters: chinchiest, chinchilla, hierarchic. | |
+5 letters: chimichanga, chinchillas, hiccoughing. | |
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